mundificatory
English
Adjective
mundificatory (comparative more mundificatory, superlative most mundificatory)
- Of or pertaining to cleansing
- 1899, Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class […] , New York: Macmillan, OCLC 17647347:
- Not that the results of her attention to household matters, of a decorative and mundificatory character, are not pleasing to the sense of men trained in middle-class proprieties; but the taste to which these effects of household adornment and tidiness appeal is a taste which has been formed under the selective guidance of a canon of propriety that demands just these evidences of wasted effort.
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Related terms
- mundificant
- mundification
- mundificative