Definition of Purify

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Purify

To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.

Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart.

To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.

To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.

To grow or become pure or clear.

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Purify Quotations

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John Keats

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Alexis de Tocqueville

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
Emma Goldman

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Jean Paul

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.
Eliot Engel

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
Eliza Farnham

Purify Translations

purify in German is reinigen, veredeln
purify in Italian is forbire
purify in Latin is defaeco
purify in Spanish is purificar
purify in Swedish is rena

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