Sentence examples for rite of purification from inspiring English sources
It is specifically viewed as a rite of purification.
At the New Museum, it's also a rite of purification: Dakis detox.
As such, it is a rite of purification, using water and the words of institution by Christ.
Simeon was at the Temple in Jerusalem when Mary and Joseph came to present the infant Jesus for the rite of purification according to Jewish law and custom.
The initiation (diksha), a rite of purification or consecration involving the transformation of the aspirant's personality, is regarded as a complement to, or even a substitute for, the previous initiation ceremony (the upanayana that all twice-born Hindus undergo at adolescence), which it strikingly resembles.
Thus the complex rites of purification for those who would approach the holy.
The cult included worship of the power of fertility, rites of purification, and initiation.
The visually spellbinding movie depicts their rigorous drills and rituals as ecstatic rites of purification and the embodiment of an impenetrable masculine mystique.
Its rigorous codes of authority, repression, discipline and honor become the cinematic equivalent of a military ballet in which the Legionnaires' drills and training rituals are ecstatic rites of purification.
What Ms. Denis has made of "Billy Budd" is the visually spellbinding cinematic equivalent of a military ballet in which the legionnaires' rigorous drills and training rituals are depicted as ecstatic rites of purification, the embodiment of an impenetrable masculine mystique before which the director stands in awe.
