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Definition: Purgation |
PurgationNoun1. The act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge. 2. An act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other other undesired elements. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "purgation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Purgation \Pur*ga"tion\, noun. [Latin expression purgatio: compare to the French expression purgation. See Purge.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: PurgationSynonyms: purge (n), purging (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Atonement | Penance, fasting, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, white sheet, shrift, flagellation, lustration; purgation, purgatory. |
Cleanness | Noun: cleanness, cleanliness; Adjective: purity; cleaning; Verb: purification, defecation; Verb: purgation, lustration; detersion, abstersion; epuration, mundation; ablution, lavation, colature; disinfection; Verb: drainage, sewerage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Purgation |
| English words defined with "purgation": Compurgation, Compurgator ♦ Superpurgation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "purgation": Restorationists. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Purgation" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (purgation, purging). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Purgation (1910) | |
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| "Purgation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Purgation" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
product purgation | 5 |
purgation | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "purgation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نظافة (cleanliness, cleanness, going-over, neatness, purity, tidiness), تهذيب (breeding, cultivation, culture, discipline, edification, expurgation, polish, politeness, precept, pruning, refinement, reformation, retouch, revision, sublimation, urbanity), تنقية (purification, refinement, refining), تنظيف (cleaning, scrub), تطهيرالسياسي, تطهير (cleaning, cleansing, decontamination, purge, purging, purification, sanitation, sterilization), طهارة (asepsis, candor, candour, chastity, honor, honour, innocence, prudery, pureness, purification, purity, refinement, righteousness, saintliness, tidiness, virtue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | purge (purge), purgation (purging), épuration (purge, purification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Reinigung (bowdlerization, chores, cleaning, cleansing, dry cleaner's, dry cleaning, purification, refinement, refining, shampoo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάθαρση ιατρική, κάθαρση εκκλησιαστική, κάθαρση (catharsis, expiation, expurgation, lustration, purification, quarantine), εξαγνισμόσ (expiation, lustration, purification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ט"ור (absolute, abstersion, catharsis, cleaning up, cleansing, decontamination, pure, purge, purification, sheer, straight, unadulterated, unalloyed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tisztítás (brushing, clarification, cleaning, defecation, elutriation, flush, purge, purging, purification, purifying, refinement, scaling, scour, scrubbing, settling), megtisztulás, hashajtás (purge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penyucian (catharsis, cleansing, gushing, purging, purification, sanctification), pembersihan (cleaning, cleansing, cleanup, clearance, mopping up, purge, purging, purification, riddance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | purificazione (purging, purification), purga (laxative, purge, purging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 下し (evacuation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | く し (evacuation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urgationpay purificação (abstersion, catharsis, cleaning, comb-out, deputation, expurgation, lustration, purification, refinement, renovation, sweetening), purgação (purge). (various references) purgaţie (abstersion). (various references) очищение кишечника. (various references) purgación (gleet). (various references) การล้างบาป. (various references) temizleme (clarification, cleaning, cleanup, clearance, expurgation, purge, purification, sweep, wipe), günahtan arındırma, bağırsakları müshille boşaltma. (various references) очищення (abstersion, calcination, clarification, cleaning, clearance, defecation, depuration, elimination, evacuation, expurgation, filtering, purge). (various references) sự l m sạch (abstersion, purge, purification), sự l m cho trong sạch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "purgation": purgations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "purgation": compurgation, expurgation. (additional references) | |
Words containing "purgation": compurgations, expurgations. (additional references) | |
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"Purgation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: buggeration, epuration, Pangaion, Paravion, peration, portation, praguian, progation, puration. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "purgation" (pronounced 'Pur*ga"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-o-p-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: trouping, uprating. | |
-2 letters: atropin, autoing, ingroup, opuntia, orating, outgain, outgrin, outrang, outring, parting, pignora, porting, pouring, pouting, prating, puritan, rainout, rouping, routing, touring, utopian. | |
-3 letters: agouti, aroint, giaour, gitano, gratin, guitar, inpour, nougat, nutria, oaring, onagri, opting, origan, ourang, outing, outran, paring, parton, patron, pignut, pigout, poring, ragout, ragtop, raping, rating, ration, roping. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-o-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: outpraying, purgations. | |
+2 letters: expurgation, outcapering, sporulating. | |
+3 letters: autographing, compurgation, expurgations, outpreaching, outsparkling, outspreading, promulgating, promulgation, repopulating. | |
+4 letters: compurgations, mousetrapping, postinaugural, precautioning, prefiguration, promulgations. | |
+5 letters: overpopulating, postgraduation, prefigurations, preformulating, spermatogonium, supererogation, superovulating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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