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the ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels

She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and body, her prayers and her toilet.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

If you need anything, ask your cousins," he said, taking a kettle from the stoop and beginning to perform ablution.
Ishmael Beah -- A Long Way Gone
Then he drags the old man out to the other part of the car to take care of the evening's ablutions.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
"Excuse me, I've only just finished my ablutions," he said, smiling, standing before him in his underclothes only.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
The way of worship is primarily that of preserving and cultivating purity of heart: 'What is ablution?
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
When his ablutions were complete, Eragon unhooked the membrane from the wall and mounted Saphira, cradling Zar'roc in the crook of his arm.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
A large praying mantis was performing ablutions on the springy stem of Jake's cowlick.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
Having come to this mental decision, I made up my mind, before I started upwards, that ablution would certainly do me a great deal of good.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
He told people the correct way to do their ablutions for prayers—which body part to wash first.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
From the first afternoon they bathed together, naked, the two of them making their reciprocal ablutions with water from the cistern.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
"Home for nineteen hours and you've already indulged your predilection for ablutionary excesses, hah!
Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman
Once the political ablutions were over, a gentle buzz wafted through the hallway as the students settled into their quieter routine of rote learning.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Manzoor filled a lota, or water jug, from a tap and instructed Mortenson in the strict order in which ablutions were to be performed.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
Milly thanked him and proceeded leisurely about her ablutions.
Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
Not being a Pharisee, the ablution was short and simple with Judah.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
And yet, she heard those chords in her sleep, found herself humming them during her ablutions.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
Still startled, the woman moved out, keeping the ablution-tank between them.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
Bad plan," went on Presbrey, noting how gingerly his visitor had gone about his ablutions.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
The sun tanned his light shoulders by the banks of the river when bathing, performing the sacred ablutions, the sacred offerings.
Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha
Hendon despatched his ablutions with alacrity, then drew back the other chair and was about to place himself at table, when the boy said, indignantly— "Forbear!
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper

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