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Definition of Purifications
1. purification [n] - See also: purification
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purifications
Literary usage of Purifications
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baptism: With Reference to Its Import and Modes by Edward Beecher (1849)
"On the other hand, the purifications of men were exceedingly numerous, and of
various kinds. ... Why should the Apostle leave purifications so ..."
2. Palestine in the Time of Christ by Edmond Stapfer (1886)
"purifications. EASTERN nations, living as they do under a burning sun, have
understood from time immemorial the necessity of frequent washings. ..."
3. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"ON THE purifications OF THE JEWS. IT was requisite that every one who was about to
... I. The purifications were for the most part performed with water, ..."
4. Biblical Archaeology by Louis Berkhof (1915)
"CEREMONIAL purifications. a. The General Idea of Purification. Israel was called
a holy people and its land, a holy land. This indicated at once a state ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... is only a sacred and unutterable Mind, flashing through the whole world with
rapid thoughts. FROM THE POEM OF purifications • AND there was among them ..."
6. History of Europe: From the Commencement of the French Revolution to the by Archibald Alison (1849)
"By successive purifications, as they were called, all those who retained any
sentiments of humanity, ... purifications of the club. \D?ux .. Amis, xu. . iv. ..."
7. Manual of Biblical Archaeology by Carl Friedrich Keil, Peter Christie, Alexander Cusin, Frederick Crombie (1887)
"THE SO-CALLED LEVITICAL purifications. § 56. ... regarding Defilements and
purifications. With the view of impressing the mind with a profound idea of the ..."
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