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Definition of Lustration
1. n. The act of lustrating or purifying.
Definition of Lustration
1. Noun. A rite of purification, especially washing. ¹
2. Noun. The restoration of credibility to a government by the purging of perpetrators of crimes committed under an earlier regime. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lustration
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lustration
Literary usage of Lustration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"... and structure of temple—lustration by Water and Fire : its transition from
material to symbolic purification ; its connexion with special events of life ..."
2. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"THE lustration. had been elevated to an equality with himself; not CHAP.
apparently for the purpose of exciting discontent, or . , of gaining a party among ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"The most celebrated lustration of Greece was that performed at Athens, ...
A general lustration of the whole Roman people took place every 5th year, ..."
4. A History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1852)
"... under the pretext of a solemn lustration, to be celebrated with the old
Macedonian rites, to purify it from the blood shed in the late quarrel. ..."
5. The History of Baptism by Robert Robinson (1817)
"The second observation is, that Christians introduced lustration into their ritual.
... The primitive Christians considered lustration with abhorrence, ..."
6. The History of Baptism by Robert Robinson, David Benedict (1817)
"The primitive Christians considered lustration with abhorrence, deemed it a sort
of magick, and preached and wrote against it: but a habit so ancient and ..."
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