Legal Definition and Related Resources of Purge

To cleanse, clear , exonerate from some charge or imputation of guilt or from a contempt .

(Purify), verb

• clarify
• clean
• cleanse
• clear
• depurate
• deterge
• discharge
• edulcorate
• eliminate
• elutriate
• empty
• eradicate
• evacuate
• excrete
• expel
• expurgate
• filter
• free from impurity
• get rid of
• rectify
• refine
• rout out
• sanctify
• scour
• separate
• strain
• sublimate
• sweep out
• wash away

(Wipe out by atonement), verb

• absolve
• acquit
• clear
• exculpate
• excuse
• exempt
• forgive
• grant absolution
• pardon
• reclaim
• redeem
• shrive
• Associated Concepts: purge of contempt

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Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Purge

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1560s, “that which purges,” from purge (verb). Meaning “a purgative, an act of purging” is from 1590s. Political sense from 1730. Earliest sense in English was the now-obsolete one “examination in a legal court” (mid-15c.).