Purgation vs Purification - What's the difference?
purgation | purification |
The process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative.
* 1908 , , Thomas Taylor (Translator), On the Generation of Animals'', ''The Treatises of Aristotle ,
* 1832 , The Edinburgh Review (page 470),
* 1992 , Helen Rodnite Lemay (Editor), Introduction'', ''Women's Secrets: A Translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus' De Secretis ,
The process or act of cleansing from sin or guilt.
* 1720 , , A Perpetual Commentary on the Revelation of St. John ,
* 1995 , Michael J. Franklin, Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies: In Honour of Dorothy M. Owen ,
* 2007 [1969], Peter Heath, The English Parish Clergy on the Eve of the Reformation ,
The act or process of purifying; the removal of impurities.
A religious act in which a defiled person is made clean or free from sin.
Purification is a synonym of purgation.
As nouns the difference between purgation and purification
is that purgation is the process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative while purification is the act or process of purifying; the removal of impurities.purgation
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(en noun)page 278,
- But those females who conceive without menstrual purgations', or who conceive during the time of the menstrual efflux, and not afterwards,and in the second instance because, after the completion of the menstrual ' purgations , the mouth of the womb becomes closed.
- Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health.
page 42,
- William evidently does not have the appreciation for women that Hildegard exhibits, yet he does not consider their monthly purgations to be a source of evil.
page 1030,
- Secondly, The branches of Plants have been us'd in religious Purgations' or Expiations. In the Mo?aical Law there was one general kind of Sacrifice commanded for Purgation, which con?i?ted of an Heifer ?acrificed and burnt to A?hes; with which, and ?pring water, a Lee was made to ?erve for many ?orts of ' Purgations .
page 181,
- An intriguing puzzle is set by the Lincoln register of Thomas Bek in which many of the commissions to receive purgations are followed by a space in which the report of the result was to be entered.
page 211,
- Records concerning the individual purgations , which tell us about the crime of the offender and the date of his release, are much more capriciously registered: four dioceses, or some eight counties, yield only fifty-four examples between 1450 and 1530; out of twenty-four registers eleven have no such entries.