Lustration

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  • n. A rite of purification, especially washing.
  • n. The restoration of credibility to a government by the purging of perpetrators of crimes committed under an earlier regime.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of lustrating or purifying.
  • n. A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Ceremonial purification; especially, a religious act of purgation or cleansing by the use of water or certain sacrifices or ceremonies, or both, performed among the ancients upon persons, armies, cities, localities, animals, etc.
  • Word Usage
    "The idea of airing the past as part of a healing process, and excluding members of the former regime from positions of authority - a process known as "lustration" - is being actively promoted by some in the Ukrainian administration."
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    lustrical    lustral   
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