What Does To Purge Mean?

According to history and political science, to purge is to eliminate measured by the group in power to be "undesirable" from a government, political party, occupation, or from the public or society on a whole, generally via violent means.

The purge has been a political tool all the way through documented history. During the time of Republican Rome, Marius prohibited Sullan supporters after he and Cinna threw out Octavius, Sulla pursued with even more atrocious proscription in opposition to Marian supporters when he came into the autocracy.

The most primitive application of the expression itself was the English Civil War's Pride Purge. In the year 1648, the modest members of the English Long Parliament were purged by the army. Parliament would experience consequent purges under the Commonwealth counting the purge of the whole House of Lords.

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