Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having been made clean. Opposite of
dirty .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cleanse .
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Examples
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We can prioritize everything else after these three have been cleansed from the internet.
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Added Yoo, The pure and impure shall be cleansed from the Earth with fire, as commanded by my Dark Lord!
Think Progress » Yoo: Congress Cannot Stop the President From Using Nukes 2010
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The truth is that once homosexuality is cleansed from the Roman Catholic Church, the problem of clerical sex crime will be solved.
Another anti-Pope diatribe from Dawkins « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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Israel believes it to be the only people of God and that all other people are to be cleansed from the area given to them by “God”.
Think Progress » Israel hints at ‘full-scale invasion.’ 2006
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These shall be both popular sovereignty and the rights of the individual, and we shall see to it that the new democracy is cleansed from the top to the bottom.
Resistance in France 1942
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All yards were manned; the bands played; the good folk on the wharves cheered like mad, for at last the stain was cleansed from the flag which Dacres had hauled down on the Guerrière.
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He had seemed to regard his wife's chamber as a tabernacle, enshrining that which he held most sacred, and would never enter it until he was cleansed from the grime and dust of the stockyard and cattle camp, and had laid aside the associations of his working day.
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Learnèd ladies and cleansed from the taint of all worldliness.
Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909
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Israel -- a temporary exclusion, in order that they might be cleansed from the defilement of their native idolatries and gradually trained for admission into the society of God's people.
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Either we must be cleansed from the pollutions of sin or we shall, as polluted, be put from that priesthood, Ezra ii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
oroboros commented on the word cleansed
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern."
--William Blake
March 17, 2008
rolig commented on the word cleansed
"Obama's thrilling election – something not long ago many wise heads said wasn't possible – also made more imminent the prospect that the dark night of the worst administration in history was ending. The American people had overwhelmingly rejected the Bush regime's stupidity, cupidity, its wars, its lies, its torturing and its secrecy, its ineptitude and its power grab that threatened constitutional government. The relief was palpable. Washingtonians were simply smiling as they hadn't in years. Something new was coming, and it was to be looked forward to. People felt cleansed."
– Elizabeth Drew, "The Truth About the Election," New York Review of Books, 18 December 2008 – 14 January 2009, 98.
December 14, 2008