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purgatorial

[ pur-guh-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr- ]

adjective

  1. removing or purging sin; expiatory:

    purgatorial rites.

  2. of, relating to, or like purgatory.


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Other Words From

  • non·purga·tori·al adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of purgatorial1

First recorded in 1490–1500; purgatory + -al 1
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Example Sentences

If any one washes once in the lake, the sins of his forefathers are forgiven, and their souls are relieved from purgatorial fires.

All this vexation makes a cold and headache doubly intolerable, and I am in a most purgatorial state on this "good Sunday."

The speakers were a pair of old Purgatorial Twins, not without alleviations, designed by Nature to multiply.

The sallies of a Schopenhauer and a Nietzsche lack the purgatorial note which religious sadness gives forth.

Surely hell, the place of punishment and purgatorial expiation, is actually upon this earth in such cases.

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