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Definition of Purifies
1. purify [v] - See also: purify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purifies
Literary usage of Purifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"And faith purifies the heart, and is a ' mystery held in a pure conscience.'
This justification is by the faith of Christ within, and this thou calls ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"The whirlwind purifies even as it devastates." " How grand you are at an aphorism,
Philip. You have all tlie pomp of the pulpit when you deliver a mere ..."
3. King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care by Henry Sweet (1871)
"... church has said that repentance should precede baptism Î Baptism purifies a
man from his sins, and is the most powerful means of extinguishing sins. LV. ..."
4. A Pilgrimage in Europe and America Leading to the Discovery of the Sources by Giacomo Costantino Beltrami (1828)
"Even the profane cinders are removed, and a new and hallowed fire purifies it by
the burning of a few herbs or roots, or a little tobacco, consecrated to ..."
5. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1891)
"It adorns the landscape ; in relation to dead nature, it purifies the atmosphere,
produces vegetable mould, and forms deposits of combustible matter; ..."
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