Plural of affusion; multiple acts of pouring liquid onto something, especially in religious rituals.
Affusion + -s (plural marker). Standard English pluralization of the Latin-derived noun.
Religious vocabulary often preserves formal Latin terms that have disappeared elsewhere in English—'affusion,' 'aspersion,' 'lustration'—all specific ways of using water in sacred rituals!
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