What's the difference between lustral and lustration?
Lustral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to, or used for, purification; as, lustral days; lustral water.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a lustrum.
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Lustration
Definition:
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) From the 1970s onward, many different forms of accountability were developed, from Latin America to South Africa and from south-east Asia to south-east Europe: truth commissions, judicial investigations, the opening of archives, banning compromised people from holding public office ("lustration"), domestic and international trials.
(2) Yehor Sobelev, a journalist and Maidan activist who now leads the Lustration Committee – a body that wants to force all Ukrainian public officials to undergo checks for past links to corruption and misgovernance – says Poroshenko has not done nearly enough during his time in charge.