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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 com·pur·ga·tion /ˌkɑm(ˌ)pɚ/
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Com·pur·ga·tion n.
 1. Law The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.
 2. Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence.
    He was privileged from his childhood from suspicion of incontinency and needed no compurgation.   --Bp. Hacket.
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