The action or an act of refining, making more elegant or cultured, or improving something or someone. Cf. polish, v. 2a.
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| 释义 | the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [noun] > purification or refinement (17) polishingc1400 The action or an act of refining, making more elegant or cultured, or improving something or someone. Cf. polish, v. 2a. mellowing1528 The action of mellow, v. Also with out (cf. mellow, v. 4b). smoothing1577 The action of the verb, in various senses; an instance of this. Also with out and figurative. polishment1594 The action of polishing, improving, or bringing to completion; the fact of being polished; an instance of this. refinement1611 Generally: the process of refining or purifying something. Also: the result of refining, or an instance of this; the state of being refined. Now… alembication1616 The action or an act of refining something or making something purer or more perfect; distillation; the result of this. Also: the purest or most… lustrationc1635 figurative. Purification, esp. spiritual or moral. purification1753 The action or process of ridding something of undesirable or alien elements; refinement to an uncorrupted or ideal state; an instance of this. burnishing1780 figurative. smoothification1799 A smoothing. limation1852 Filing; figurative ‘polishing up’. Subcategories:— instance of (1) — one who (3) — that which (2) |
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