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That logic, now her signature, has been one of purgation.
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Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
Next is purgation, aimed at flushing out the intestines.
—Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024
If moviegoing is an act of ritual purgation, Cage must be its high priest, his performances a kind of ecstatic self-flagellation through which we’re cleansed—or, to use Kidman’s term, reborn.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
Yet the consequences of viewing restitution as a ritual of guilt and atonement, of self-purification through self-purgation, cannot be waved away.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
Part of the fantasy of the baths has always been about the grace of purgation — this urge to slough away the lesser parts of ourselves and let our better selves emerge instead: rarefied, whittled, purified.
—Leslie Jamison, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2020
This purgation is absent from Jeff Buckley’s soft, wounded crooning.
—Hannah Seidlitz, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
Frozen yogurt in the afterlife The seventh and eighth centuries saw the growth of teaching about an intermediate place where souls undergo purification and purgation.
—Matthew Robert Anderson, Quartzy, 27 Nov. 2019
Nobody asked me, but pundits who pooh-pooh postulations of a blue wave in Maryland discount the possibility of unprecedented personal purgations at the polls — that is, voting as catharsis.
—Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 22 June 2018
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Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
Next is purgation, aimed at flushing out the intestines.
—Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024
If moviegoing is an act of ritual purgation, Cage must be its high priest, his performances a kind of ecstatic self-flagellation through which we’re cleansed—or, to use Kidman’s term, reborn.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
Yet the consequences of viewing restitution as a ritual of guilt and atonement, of self-purification through self-purgation, cannot be waved away.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
Part of the fantasy of the baths has always been about the grace of purgation — this urge to slough away the lesser parts of ourselves and let our better selves emerge instead: rarefied, whittled, purified.
—Leslie Jamison, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2020
This purgation is absent from Jeff Buckley’s soft, wounded crooning.
—Hannah Seidlitz, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
Frozen yogurt in the afterlife The seventh and eighth centuries saw the growth of teaching about an intermediate place where souls undergo purification and purgation.
—Matthew Robert Anderson, Quartzy, 27 Nov. 2019
Nobody asked me, but pundits who pooh-pooh postulations of a blue wave in Maryland discount the possibility of unprecedented personal purgations at the polls — that is, voting as catharsis.
—Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 22 June 2018
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“Purgation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purgation. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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purgation
noun
pur·ga·tion
ˌpər-ˈgā-shən 
Legal Definition
purgation
noun
pur·ga·tion
pər-ˈgā-shən
: the act or the result of purging
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