lustration
/lʌsˈtɹeɪʃən/noun
lustration is a noun meaning “A rite of purification, especially washing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lustration is lustrations.
What does lustration mean?
noun
- 1
A rite of purification, especially washing.
- 2
The restoration of credibility to a government by the purging of perpetrators of crimes committed under an earlier regime.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce lustration?
- /lʌsˈtɹeɪʃən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-lustration.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of lustration
- lustrations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lustration?
Lustration appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Lustration in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a rite of purification, especially washing:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | lustration |
| German | Lustration |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does lustration come from?
Borrowed from Latin lustratio.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).