英语词汇“lustration”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	lustration
释义	lus·tra·tion \(ˌ)ləˈstrāshən\ noun (-s) Etymology: Latin lustration-, lustratio, from lustratus + -ion-, -io -ion 1. a. : a purificatory ceremony performed as a preliminary to entering a holy place, as a means of removing bloodguiltiness, on the occasion of a birth, marriage, or death, or as a means of ceremonially cleansing a house, a city, army, or a whole people on some special occasion < lustration with water is a prominent feature in Babylonian cult — W.L.Wardle > b. : an act or instance of cleansing especially by moral or spiritual purification < the lustration of penitents — Lawrence Durrell > < the Deluge as a type of the world's lustration — F.W.Farrar > c. : an act of washing : ablution < had not lost the … habit of personal lustration — D.W.Bone > 2. archaic : a tour of inspection : survey < have made a last lustration of all my walks and haunts, and taken a long farewell — Francis Jeffrey >
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