PURGATORY


Meaning of PURGATORY in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The island was turned into a purgatory for slaves before they were sold.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Christina believed she was released from the afterlife to pray for the souls in purgatory .

In stark contrast to such kindness and understanding was my purgatory at work.

McCree suffered in an employment purgatory .

On some, the soul in purgatory peeps from a bowl of flame.

She landed on the altar and spoke of her journey through heaven, hell, purgatory , and back.

The idea of being marooned at Balmoral for months on end is her vision of purgatory .

This was purgatory , worse than anything she'd faced in her life.

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