Definition of Purgings

1. purging [n] - See also: purging

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purgings

purgatorian
purgatorians
purgatoric
purgatories
purgatory
purge
purgeable
purged
purger
purgeries
purgers
purgery
purges
purging
purgings (current term)
puri
purification
purifications
purificative
purificator
purificators
purificatory
purified
purifier
purifiers
purifies
puriform
purify
purifying

Literary usage of Purgings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"Our purgings, pumpings, b., and blows D. ii. 154 Blaspheme. Than ridicule all Taste, b. Quadrille S. i. ..."

2. Eversham Friends in the Olden Time: A History of "Eversham Monthly Meeting by Alfred William Brown (1885)
"... and purgings of the Saints at Evesham; who by their Obedience to the Lord do overcome their Enemies by their daily suffering under them. ..."

3. The London Medical and Physical Journal (1828)
"Those spontaneous purgings are to them a new, and altogether unaccountable, ... Those sudden purgings become occasionally violent and protracted, ..."

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