What's the difference between lustrate and lustrated?

Lustrate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.

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.

Lustrated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Lustrate

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.

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