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Strange True Stories of Louisiana;
• (purge)- to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify,
( ; ); I must root out that fault before I die or
my purgatory will be long. — The City and the World and Other Stories;
• (purgation)- the act of purging or purifying; At the beginning of
the purgation, at all events, Parliament professed carefulness and even
leniency in its choice of victims. — The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649;
• (catharsis)- purgation, ( );
• the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, esp. through
certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music, ( ; ( ,
)); It seemed to me that the laughter was a catharsis, and that it marked a
new beginning for all of us. — River God;
• (abreaction)- the purging of emotional tensions;
catholic = universal = general = generic
• (catholic)- broad or wide-ranging in tastes, interests, or the like; having
sympathies with all; broad-minded; liberal,( ; ; ;
); His taste is catholic, and while he delights in the humming birds,
he does not therefore scorn the less brilliant hippopotamus. — By the
Christmas Fire;
• (generic)- relating to or descriptive of an entire group or class; general;
parish > parochial = provincial = insular > insulate = isolate : island
• (parish)- an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church in the
Anglican, Roman Catholic, and some other churches;
• (parochial)- very limited or narrow in scope or outlook; provincial, (
); It may require us to be a lot less parochial, a lot more focused on the
common good of the planet;
• of or pertaining to a parish or parishes, ( );
• (provincial)- having or showing the manners, viewpoints, etc., considered
characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitants of a province; rustic; narrow or
illiberal; parochial, ( ,
; ); He felt somewhat provincial, and
no woman noticed him, and it was clear that Kitty was no longer interested in
him. — Mike Fletcher A Novel;
• (insularity)- narrow-mindedness; isolation, ( ; ;
); Their insularity, spiritual as well as geographical, has whetted the
edge of a thousand flouts and gibes. — The Open Secret of Ireland;