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Exorcism

//ˈɛk.sɔɹˌsɪ.zəm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them. countable, uncountable

    "Master Hume, we are therefore prouided: / will her Ladyship behold and heare our Exorcismes?"

  2. 2
    freeing from evil spirits wordnet

Etymology

From Old French exorciser, from Late Latin exorcizō, from Ancient Greek ἐξορκίζω (exorkízō, “to ward off, to charge under oath, adjure”), from ἐξ (ex) + ὅρκος (hórkos).

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