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ABLUTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ablution mean?
• ABLUTION (noun)
The noun ABLUTION has 1 sense:
1. the ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels
Familiarity information: ABLUTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ablution" is a kind of...):
lavation; wash; washing (the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water))
ritual (the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies)
Derivation:
ablutionary (cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands)
Context examples
Mr. Darcy may perhaps have heard of such a place as Gracechurch Street, but he would hardly think a month's ablution enough to cleanse him from its impurities, were he once to enter it; and depend upon it, Mr. Bingley never stirs without him.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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