Meanings of purify influence in English

Meanwhile Ahalya-thecursed wife of Gautama-getscleared of her guilt through the purifying influence of Rama.

The sorrows of an unhappy married life may have had a purifying influence on my nature.

It shows the purifying influence of the maternal instinct in a wicked nature, surviving to the last.

In your boarding-schools, as in ours, they are removed from the purifying influence of mother and sisters.

The purifying influence of The Pilgrim's Progress may be traced in the writings of many imaginative authors.

Even the pallor and the purifying influence of her mortal illness could not disguise these unmistakable signs.

In her great happiness there are moments when holy thoughts arise, having a purifying influence upon her life.

So that it was our purifying influence he dreaded in secret, though he told the public he dreaded the reverse.

Excessive introspection, instead of exercising a purifying influence, tends to distort one's religious conceptions, and creates an unwholesome type of piety.

As to visiting an artist's studio alone, there is in art itself an ennobling and purifying influence which should be a protection.

Instead of being objects of pity, shame, and aversion; many of them become pillars of light, and exert a purifying influence upon others.

You are sick because you maintain at the temperature of passion a feeling which marriage ought to convert into a steadying, purifying influence.

This is best shown in the overcrowded streets and houses of great cities, which are deprived of the purifying influence of sun and air.

The sun shone down with an indescribable purifying influence upon the air, the wretched cottages, the heaps of refuse, and the unkempt little crew.

They talked of a new substitute for dripping in vegetarian cookery that Mrs. Goopes was convinced exercised an exceptionally purifying influence on the mind.

Living in a boarding-house, with none of the restraints and purifying influences of a good home, he formed intimacies with brilliant but unscrupulous young men.