Sample Sentences for
exorcise
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exorcise as in:  exorcise the evil spirit

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The priest was summoned to exorcise the demon.
exorcise = drive out by ritual
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    It is intended as an exorcism and a dressing for battle.  (source)
    exorcism = the act of expelling or driving away something bad -- especially an evil spirit driven from a person or place or thing by prayer or magic
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    Christians still practiced the supernatural craft of exorcism—an early practice of their faith that required the ability not only to cast out demons but to summon them.  (source)
    exorcism = the act of expelling or driving away an evil spirit by prayer
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    All that devil and exorcism stuff.  (source)
    exorcism = the act of expelling or driving away something bad -- especially an evil spirit driven from a person or place or thing by prayer or magic
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    I was ready to yield, even if it meant an exorcism.†  (source)
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    It was as if she had been exorcised of her demons.  (source)
    exorcised = freed
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    They demanded she exorcise the demon in her daughter.†  (source)
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    The remaining exorcist stayed to show us out.†  (source)
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    He noticed that the acolytes, exorcists, !†  (source)
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    Hearing "civilized" languages debase humans, watching cultural exorcisms debase literature, seeing oneself preserved in the amber of disqualifying metaphors—I can say that my narrative project is as difficult today as it was thirty years ago.†  (source)
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    They were loaded onto a ship while their white neighbors looked on, people who had risen early to stand in the cold and watch this exorcising of the Japanese from their midst—friends, some of them, but the merely curious, mainly, and fishermen who stood on the decks of their boats out in Amity Harbor.†  (source)
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    the potent word that exorcises from the house of life the haunting shadow of fate.†  (source)
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    It seemed that in their bitterness towards those unfortunate little ones, they were somehow exorcizing their own fearful background.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a non-common spelling. Typically the word is spelled exorcising.
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    He wouldn't have wasted time fainting, just gotten busy arranging the exorcism.†  (source)
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exorcise as in:  exorcise the memory

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She has exorcised many of the demons of her tumultuous upbringing.
exorcised = gotten rid of
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    They were not arresting a man, they were exorcising fear.  (source)
    exorcising = getting rid of
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    Or purchase, for a fee, some cheap brand of exorcism from a counselor with a fancy degree, who would sit them down and say, in one of many ways: "You're not the Sinners."  (source)
    exorcism = the act of expelling or driving away something bad (figurative use of the concept of driving away evil spirits by ritual)
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    Mae laughed to herself, thinking of exorcizing that fat idiot from her life.  (source)
    exorcizing = getting rid of
    unconventional spelling: This is a non-common spelling. Typically the word is spelled exorcising.
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And eventually, perhaps, exorcize the memories that haunted them.  (source)
exorcize = get rid of
unconventional spelling: This is a non-common spelling. Typically the word is spelled exorcise.
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