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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 "Society for the Prevention of Vice." I knew him well when he was a clerk in a dry goods store on Broadway, and when he undertook his first purifying efforts, I little supposed that he was to achieve such reforms. It was an Augean stable indeed that he set about cleansing. Fifty years ago our city was flooded by obscene literature which sought no concealment. The vilest books and pictures were openly sold in the streets, and an enormous traffic was waged in what may be called ...

— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

... confession. I stopped behind the last shrub in the avenue, pulled up my collar, rubbed my shabby hat and my trousers with the cuffs of my sleeves, dusted my coat with the sleeves themselves, and gave them a final cleansing rub one against the other. I buttoned my coat carefully so as to exhibit the inner, always the least worn, side of the cloth, and finally had turned down the tops of my trousers over my boots, artistically cleaned in the grass. Thanks to this Gascon toilet, I could hope that the lady ...

— The Message • Honore de Balzac

... fever reigned supreme. Here, again, the Priests of the Mission and the Sisters of Charity devoted themselves to the work that no one else would do. Organizing themselves into bands, they went about burying the dead, nursing the sick and cleansing the streets, many of them ...

— Life of St. Vincent de Paul • F.A. [Frances Alice] Forbes

... Wheelbarrows and shovels are of little use, except to remove some of the surface filth, and to litter all the passages in the process. What is to be done with it? 'Turn the Elbe into it,' says he. The flood will sweep away all the pollution. Not my own efforts, but the influx of that pardoning, cleansing grace which is in Christ will wash away the accumulations of years, and the ingrained evil which has stained every part of my being. We cannot cleanse ourselves, we cannot 'put off' this old nature which has struck its roots so deep into our being; but if we turn to ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John • Alexander Maclaren

... hearth! ye never learned to slight A poor man's gift. My bowls of clay To ye are hallowed by the cleansing rite, ...

— The Elegies of Tibullus • Tibullus

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