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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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"Cleanse" Quotes from Famous Books

... me his method, I now give it for the benefit of coleopterists: The beetles, after being killed, are plunged into benzoline (benzol) for two or three days, to cleanse them from grease and impurities. Indeed, it considerably simplifies matters to carry a bottle of benzol, as I do when collecting beetles, to plunge them into when first taken. It instantly kills, and the cleansing ...

— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne

... some new trick was played upon him, and he was obliged to walk through the market alleys as warily as though he were in a hostile country. He was splashed with water from the sponges employed to cleanse the slabs; he stumbled and almost fell over slippery refuse intentionally spread in his way; and even the porters contrived to run their baskets against the nape of his neck. One day, moreover, when two of the fish-wives ...

— The Fat and the Thin • Emile Zola

... bewildered girl; and the child in her arms set up a frantic chorus of shouts. "A murderess, indeed! Go down on your knees and pray to God to cleanse your wicked ungrateful heart, Amelia, and may He forgive you as I do." And Mrs. Sedley tossed out of the room, hissing out the word poison once more, and ...

— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

... exist. In the prologue, the author states that his principal motive for publishing a work written in so strange a language was his observing the damage which resulted from an ignorance of the Germania, especially to the judges and ministers of justice, whose charge it is to cleanse the public from the pernicious gentry who use it. By far the greatest part of the vocabulary consists of Spanish words used allegorically, which are, however, intermingled with many others, most of which ...

— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow

... Sergius; 'go to the fountain basin there and cleanse yourself. If there were fish in it, I would feel half inclined to cast you in to feed them. After that, come ...

— Continental Monthly, Volume 5, Issue 4 • Various

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