Dictionary

lustration en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /lʌsˈtɹeɪʃən/

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin lūstrō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin lustratiobor. English lustration Borrowed from Latin lustratio.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A rite of purification, especially washing.
   • It will be remembered, that this beautiful Island was sacred to the ancient Greeks, from having been the birth-place of Apollo and Diana. None were born or died there—the mothers and the dying were carried to the neighbouring islet of Rhane. Solemn expeditions, with much priestly pomp, were frequently made from Athens to enforce this ordinance, particularly to propitiate the Gods in time of public calamity. Our era refers to the celebrated lustration, at the time of the Peloponnesian war, during the plague of Athens. 1830, Felicia Hemans, A Song of Delos, footnote, from The Winter's Wreath, 1831, page 49:
2. (countable, uncountable) The restoration of credibility to a government by the purging of perpetrators of crimes committed under an earlier regime.

Forms

Deriveds

lustral · lustrational · lustrical

Relateds

lustrate

Translations (34)

ru омове́ние (a rite of purification, especially washing) · sv förnyelse (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · el κάθαρση (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · ru очище́ние (a rite of purification, especially washing) · sv lustration (a rite of purification, especially washing) · nl lustratie (a rite of purification, especially washing) · pl oczyszczenie (a rite of purification, especially washing) · fi lustraatio (a rite of purification, especially washing) · io lustraco (a rite of purification, especially washing) · bg лустрация (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · de Lustration (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · uk люстрація (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · ro lustrație (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · io lustraco (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · sv rening (a rite of purification, especially washing) · el κάθαρση (a rite of purification, especially washing) · nl lzuiveringsrite (a rite of purification, especially washing) · ru люстра́ция (a rite of purification, especially washing) · sh lustracija (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · ru люстра́ция (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · fi puhdistautuminen (a rite of purification, especially washing) · de Lustration (a rite of purification, especially washing) · be люстра́цыя (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · el εξαγνισμός (a rite of purification, especially washing) · ro lustrație (a rite of purification, especially washing) · fi lustraatio (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · fr lustration (a rite of purification, especially washing) · it lustrismo (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · lv lustrācija (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · fi puhdistus (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · bg пречистване (a rite of purification, especially washing) · sv utrensning (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · pl lustracja (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators) · fr lustration (restoration of credibility to a government by the purging earlier perpetrators)