Meaning

(Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Purgatory..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Purgatory.
2. Any situation where suffering is endured, particularly as part of a process of redemption.
3. Tending to cleanse; expiatory.

Example Sentences

the purgatory of lost love

[…] many Gods breedeth heathens miseries, many countries trauailers humors, many wiues mens purgatories, and many friends trustes ruine:

I laid my rank and fortune at the fair one’s feet, and would have married instantly; but that Oldworth opposed my precipitancy, and insisted upon a probation of six months absence—It has been a purgatory!

It might be […] that Ruth had worked her way through the deep purgatory of repentance up to something like purity again; God only knew!

Later came midsummer, with the stifling heat, when the dingy killing beds of Durham’s became a very purgatory; one time, in a single day, three men fell dead from sunstroke.

[…] that would mean he would be irrecoverably Afrikaans and would have to spend years in the purgatory of an Afrikaans boarding-school, as all farm-children do, before he would be allowed to come back to the farm.

Last of all, the prodigie of Siracusa was expiat by a purgatory sacrifice, by direction from the soothsaiers to what gods, supplications and sacrifice should be made.

This purgatory interval is not unfavourable to a faithless representative, who may be as good a canvasser as he was a bad governor.

Word Forms

• purgatories
• more purgatory
• most purgatory

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When Should You Use Purgatory?

Use purgatory when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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