Purification

CIDE DICTIONARY

Purification, n. [F. purification, L. purificatio. See Purify.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement.  [1913 Webster]

  "When the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished."  [1913 Webster]
•  A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

Purification

ablation, abrasion, absolution, abstersion, abstraction, atonement, beatification, beatitude, blessedness, blessing, bolting, bowdlerization, canonization, catharsis, clarification, cleaning, cleansing, colature, concentrate, concentration, consecration, decoction, dedication, deduction, destructive distillation, detersion, devotion, disentanglement, disinvolvement, distillate, distillation, dry cleaning, edulcoration, elixir, elution, elutriation, enshrinement, erosion, essence, essentialization, exaltation, expiation, expurgation, extract, extraction, filtering, filtration, forgiveness, glorification, grace, hallowing, infusion, justification, justification by works, leaching, lixiviation, lustration, narrowing, percolation, purgation, purge, purging, quintessence, rebirth, redemption, refinement, regeneration, removal, riddling, sainthood, sainting, salvation, sanctification, screening, separation, setting apart, sieving, sifting, simplification, spirit, spiritualization, state of grace, steam cleaning, straining, streamlining, stripping, stripping down, subduction, sublation, sublimation, subtraction, taking away, uncluttering, unscrambling, unsnarling, winnowing

ROGET THESAURUS

Purification

Cleanness

N cleanness, cleanliness, purity, cleaning, purification, defecation, purgation, lustration, detersion, abstersion, epuration, mundation, ablution, lavation, colature, disinfection, drainage, sewerage, lavatory, laundry, washhouse, washerwoman, laundress, dhobi, laundryman, washerman, scavenger, dustman, sweep, white wings brush, broom, besom, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter, blotter, napkin, cloth, maukin, malkin, handkerchief, towel, sudary, doyley, doily, duster, sponge, mop, swab, cover, drugget, wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative, purifier, disinfectant, aperient, benzene, benzine benzol, benolin, bleaching powder, chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent, laxative, clean, cleanly, pure, immaculate, spotless, stainless, taintless, trig, without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied, untainted, uninfected, sweet, sweet as a nut, neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in pattens, cleaned, kempt, abstergent, cathartic, cleansing, purifying, neatly, clean as a whistle.

Improvement

N improvement, amelioration, melioration, betterment, mend, amendment, emendation, mending, advancement, advance, ascent, promotion, preferment, elevation, increase, cultivation, civilization, culture, march of intellect, menticulture, race-culture, eugenics, reform, reformation, revision, radical reform, second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration, purification, oxidation, repair, recovery, revise, new edition, reformer, radical, improving, progressive, improved, better, better off, better for, all the better for, better advised, reformatory, emendatory, reparatory, remedial, corrigible, improvable, accultural, on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice, ad melius inquirendum, urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.

Simpleness

N simpleness, purity, homogeneity, elimination, sifting, purification, simple, uniform, of a piece, homogeneous, single, pure, sheer, neat, unmixed, unmingled, unblended, uncombined, uncompounded, elementary, undecomposed, unadulterated, unsophisticated, unalloyed, untinged, unfortified, pur et simple, incomplex, free from, exempt from, exclusive, simple, only.