Purgatory Definition

pûrgə-tôrē
purgatories
noun
A state or place in which, in Roman Catholicism and other Christian doctrine, those who have died in the grace of God expiate their sins by suffering.
Webster's New World
Any state or place of temporary punishment, expiation, or remorse.
Webster's New World

Any situation causing suffering.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
Tending to cleanse or purge.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Purgatory

Noun

Singular:
purgatory
Plural:
purgatories

Origin of Purgatory

  • Middle English purgatorie from Old French purgatoire from Medieval Latin pūrgātōrium from Late Latin means of purgation from neuter of pūrgātōrius cleansing from Latin pūrgāre to cleanse purge

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin purgātōrium (“cleansing"). Cognate to English purge.

    From Wiktionary

Purgatory Sentence Examples

  • An analogy to purgatory can be traced in most religions.

  • No one knows how severe or how long a Purgatory was, or is, implied in a hundred days of canonical penance."

  • He painted in lurid colours the terrors of purgatory, while he dwelt on the cheapness of the indulgence which would purchase remission and his prices were lowered as each sale approached its end.

  • Tetzel's efforts irretrievably damaged the complicated and abstruse Catholic doctrine on the subject of indulgences; as soon as the coin clinks in the chest, he cried, the soul is freed from purgatory.

  • In later Judaism it was the purgatory of faithless Jews, who at last reached Paradise, but it.

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YRYORY

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