purging

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
noun the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
verb oust politically

From Middle English purgynge; equivalent to purge + -ing.

There is neither of us, whose purging or punishing may so much import to Arcadia. — The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Philip Sidney
But it is evident the Fire and Purging here mentioned, is the same whereof the Prophet Zachary speaketh (chap. — Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
And am I then reveng’d, To take him in the purging of his soul, When he is fit and season’d for his passage? — Hamlet, William Shakespeare

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