Purification

·noun The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement.

II. Purification ·noun A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations.

III. Purification ·noun The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals.