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单词 cleansing
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cleansingn.

/ˈklɛnzɪŋ/
Etymology: < cleanse v.
1. The action of cleanse v. in its various senses; cleaning, purification, acquittal.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > making sanitarily free of disease
cleansingc1000
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > [noun]
cleansingc1000
rinsinga1400
abstersion?a1425
mundification?a1425
detersion1607
mundifying1610
mundation1633
fowing1636
cleaning1662
detergency1710
society > morality > virtue > purity > [noun] > moral purification
cleansingc1000
purgationc1384
purgatoryc1400
circumcision1526
purificationa1560
defecation1632
castification1653
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > [noun] > exculpation
skering1297
sunyinga1400
discharge1449
cleansingc1568
disaggravating1598
clearing1604
assoilment1611
washing1612
disblaminga1641
disculpation1649
acclearmenta1670
exculpationa1715
whitewashing1768
expurgation1828
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) i. 44 For ðinre clænsunga [c1160 Hatton Gosp. clænsunge].
c1200 Winteney Rule St. Benet (1888) 65 On sæternes dæȝ clænsunga do.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 25889 Þe fire o clensing.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xvii. clx. 708 The clensinge of hempe or of flexe.
c1568 Jrnl. Queen Mary's Proc. in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Queen of Scots (1824) App. 47 The counsale haldin for the cleansing of Bothwell.
1611 Bible (King James) Mark i. 44.
1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces iii. 128 The opening and cleansing of the old Channel of the Rhine.
1842 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. VI. vi. 55 Almost all religions have their outward cleansings.
1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 V. liii. 255 A verdict of acquittal, a ‘cleansing by assize’, as it was termed.
2.
a. concrete. The dirt, dust, or refuse removed in cleaning anything.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirt removed in cleaning
washingsc1330
purginga1398
scouring1588
purgament1597
cleansing1608
fullage1611
sordes1640
scuda1642
offscouring1655
offage1727
outscourings1828
cleaning1855
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 136 Trochili..are greedy of these wormes or clensings of the Crocodiles.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Curailles de maison, the dust, filth, sweepings or cleansing, of houses.
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) (at Bean) The shalings, chaffe, or cleansings of Beanes.
b. The lochia or discharges after childbirth; a rustic name for the afterbirth of cattle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > discharges before or after childbirth > [noun]
purgationa1398
lochia1612
cleansing1655
cleaning1661
show1734
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > afterbirth
cleansing1655
cleaning1661
heam1681
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > that gives birth > afterbirth
glean1601
cleaning1661
cleansing1810
1655 L. Thetford Perfect Horseman 10 By no Means let the Mare eat her cleansing.
1810 Treat. Live Stock in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (E.D.S.) (at cited word) The after-birth; in the north it is termed the cleansing.
1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Cleansings, a popular term for the Lochia.
1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (E.D.S.) Clansing or Cleansing, the placenta or after-birth of an animal.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.
ΚΠ
1335 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 194 1 clensingbecche..4d.
1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes l. sig. Bviii Some of it Ich had in the clensyng weeke.
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Cleansing-vat, a vessel in which the fermentation of beer is concluded; the yeast running out of the bung-hole, and being kept full by supply from a store-vat.

Draft additions October 2001

[Compare Serbian and Croatian čišćenje (1942 in this sense in Serbian), probably after a German word (perhaps Reinigung or Säuberung (compare quot. 1936)).] The purging of ethnic or religious minority groups from a geographical area, society, etc., esp. by expulsion or killing. Cf. ethnic cleansing n., social cleansing n. at social adj. and n. Compounds 2.
ΚΠ
1936 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 30 346 In Berlin, for example, there was a cleansing process (Säuberungsaktion), directed against Marxists, Jews, and others who were alleged to be enemies of the state, involving wholesale charges of corruption and inefficiency.
1946 tr. A. Rosenberg in Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression (U.S. Chief Counsel Prosecution of Axis Criminality) V. 557 The Jewish question..must be solved and..all nations of Europe will march behind this cleansing at the end.
1992 Economist 10 Oct. 68/1 A sentiment has developed among the Lebanese that the communal cleansing was wrong and that the displaced people should return home.
1995 Today 27 July 2/4 The Serbs were keen to ensure the Zepa ‘cleansing’ operation was less offensive.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

cleansingadj.

/ˈklɛnzɪŋ/
Etymology: formed as cleanse v. + -ing suffix2.
That cleanses: see the verb; spec. of cosmetics.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > [adjective]
cleansinga1300
mundifying1579
scouring1594
detergent1600
detersive1601
abstersory1609
abstergent1617
thorough-cleansing1642
deterging1651
smegmatic1656
extersive1657
tersive1667
smectic1676
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective]
cleansinga1300
mundificativea1400
mundicative1575
detersive1586
detergent1600
deterging1651
depleting1807
depletory1849
eliminant1853
exipotic1856
depletive1885
society > morality > virtue > purity > [adjective] > relating to moral purification > morally purifying
purgatory?c1225
cleansinga1300
purgatoryc1390
purgative1489
purificatory1610
purgatorial1632
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [adjective] > relating to preparations > relating to cleansers or moisturizers
moisturized1921
cleansing1926–7
moisturizing1947
alcohol-free1991
a1300 Cursor Mundi 26201 Penance thol in clenssing fire.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. lxvi. 1329 Whey departed from þe chese and fro þe buttre is most drenynge and clensynge and abatynge colera.
a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 15 Centum capita, affodillus, clansing gresse.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1727 With..cleansing herbs wash off The clotted gore. View more context for this quotation
1739 Gen. Chirurg. Dict. at Abstergentia, in J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. Abstergents or cleansing Medicines.
1858 A. A. Procter Poems (title) Cleansing Fires.
1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 492 An Elizabeth Arden treatment is based on..Cleansing with Venetian Cleansing Cream.
1938 Eve's Jrnl. Jan. Care of the face: Cleansing cream Skin tonic Skin food.
1965 Harper's Bazaar 89/1 Hand Cream, Foundation Cream, Cleansing Milk.
1969 J. Fraser Clap Hands ii. 22 She took a jar of cleansing cream from the cabinet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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