ceremonial cleansing
Sacred ablution rite
Ceremonial cleansing is a ritual purification of body, objects, or spaces according to religious or cultural traditions.
The cleansing may be literal—washing with water, burning sage, sprinkling salt—or symbolic.
Many faiths prescribe ceremonial cleansing before prayer, after contact with the dead, or to prepare sacred spaces: The priest performed a ceremonial cleansing of the altar.
- ablutionRitualized washing of body
- ritual bathCeremonial immersion for purification
- mikvehJewish purification immersion pool
- footwashingCleansing another's feet
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
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Violating something sacred
profanation · sacrilege · pollution · uncleanness · uncleanliness
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Evil supernatural practice
hex · malediction · necromancy
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