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Cleansing

noun

The act of making something clean. Synonyms: cleaning, cleanup.

adjective

Cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands. Synonym: ablutionary.

Acting like an antiseptic. Synonym: purifying.

Cleanse

verb

(past & past part. cleansed; pres. part. cleansing)

Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing. Synonym: clean. "Clean your fingernails before dinner"

Purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins.

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"Cleansing" Quotes from Famous Books

... the traditional origin of the "eneepee," which has ever since been deemed essential to the Indian's effort to purify and recreate his spirit. It is used both by the doctor and by his patient. Every man must enter the cleansing bath and take the cold plunge which follows, when preparing for any spiritual crisis, for possible ...

— The Soul of the Indian - An Interpretation • [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman

... be expected that he would ever bring forward any specially new thoughts, only that he would penetrate confusion, think out errors to the bottom, and, with the years, carry out a process of thorough cleansing. ...

— Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth • George Brandes

... although in a way of speaking she was right, too. He did, indeed, use the same yellow bar soap for washing his hands that he used for anointing his ropes. It was a good soap, and cheap; he had used the same brand regularly for years in cleansing his hands. Since it answered the first purpose so well, what possible harm could there be in slicking the noose of the rope with it when he was called upon to conduct one of his jobs over up at the prison? Apparently he was at a loss ...

— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb

... of the holes in the tubes of syringes are too small. See that they are sufficiently large to produce thorough cleansing. ...

— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis

... I should have recorded, belongs a Sussex saint, Saint Richard, Bishop of Chichester in the thirteenth century, and a great man. In 1245 he found the Sussex see an Augaean stable; but he was equal to the labour of cleansing it. He deprived the corrupt clergy of their benefices with an unhesitating hand, and upon their successors and those that remained he imposed laws of comeliness and simplicity. His reforms were many and various: he restored hospitality to its high place among the duties ...

— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas

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