Meaning

Of, pertaining to, or resembling purgatory..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling purgatory.
2. That purifies by removing sin; expiatory.

Example Sentences

What aunswere then will you make to him that shall frame out of Saynt Paul an argument to ouerthrow the whole force and estimacion of your Purgatory on this wise? Fe. Christ needeth no Purgatoriall Expiation. Ri, Christ is our Righteousnes, out of S. Paul. So. Ergo. Our Righteousnes needeth not any Purgatoriall Expiation.

At the same time, [the three bishops] emitted a summary confession of their faith […] that there is no purgatorial state after this life […]

[…] can you suppose it would offend that benevolent Being […] to raise a devoted heart from purgatorial torments to a state of heavenly bliss, when you could do it without the slightest injury to yourself or any other?

[…] fearful lest in the midst of the purgatorial fire, which differed from the infernal only in that it was not everlasting, his penance might avail no more than a drop of moisture […]

But to enter the Church in such an unscholarly way that he could not in any probability rise to a higher grade through all his career than that of the humble curate wearing his life out in an obscure village or city slum—that might have a touch of goodness and greatness in it; that might be true religion, and a purgatorial course worthy of being followed by a remorseful man.

Often […] exile is conceived as a purgatorial experience which the West Indian must undergo in order to know himself.

Dante makes this earlier exchange into a protopilgrimage in the purgatorial style and retroactively imbues it with the weight of this later project, his sacrato poema.

Word Forms

• more purgatorial
• most purgatorial

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