An alternative spelling of acatharsia; a state of purity or absence of bodily and spiritual impurities.
Variant spelling of 'acatharsia,' using the suffix '-y' instead of '-ia.' Both forms derive from the same Greek roots 'a-' and 'katharsis.' The variation reflects different Latinization conventions.
English used to have dozens of variant spellings for the same word—'acatharsy' and 'acatharsia' are the same thing, but printers and scribes couldn't agree on spelling until dictionaries standardized everything in the 1800s.
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