purgation
- n purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
- n a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites
- n the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
- Words like hubris (head-spinning pride) and catharsis (purgation by pity and terror) begin to assume a certain noble abstractness.
- The "four haunted Tyrones," as O'Neill renamed his family, establish a tension of rage and apology, followed by purgation in four self-revelatory monologues.
- A tale of men suffering from the soul-sickness of despair, the film is a masterpiece of tedium, a parable of purgation.