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Date: 2014-03-28 2:05 GMT-05:00
Subject: catharsis: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Mar. 28, 2014

catharsis \kuh-THAHR-seez\ noun 1. the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music. 2. Medicine/Medical. purgation. Quotes Then they argued about whether the sensation of cath... See full quote -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The City of Trembling Leaves, 1945 Origin Catharsis came to English in the late 1700s from the Greek kátharsis meaning "a cleansing."

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