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Lustration has two meanings, historical and modern.Historically- It was the term for various ancient Greek and Roman purification rituals.Modern- In the period after the fall of the various European Communist states in 1989–1991, the term came to refer to the policy of limiting the participation of former communists, and especially informants of the communist secret police, in the successor governments or even in civil service positions. In modern times, lustration has borrowed the meaning "to purify" from the Latin historical sense and has applied it to the procedure in which a country will go through in order to deal with past human rights abuses or injustices that have occurred.
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Lustration
(n.)
The act of lustrating or purifying.
  
 
(n.)
A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.
  

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Ceremonial purefication performed before entering a holy place

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صفائي, پاکي, طہارت, شدھتا, (تطہير

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lustration /lʌs'treiʃn/
danh từ, (tôn giáo) lễ khai hoang, lễ tẩy uế lễ rửa tội (cho trẻ con mới đẻ)
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