purgatory
see also: Purgatory
Pronunciation Noun
Purgatory
Proper noun
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see also: Purgatory
Pronunciation Noun
purgatory
- (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Purgatory#English|Purgatory
- Any situation where suffering is endured, particularly as part of a process of redemption.
- 1605, Nicholas Breton, An Olde Mans Lesson, and a Young Mans Loue, London: Edward White,
- […] many Gods breedeth heathens miseries, many countries trauailers humors, many wiues mens purgatories, and many friends trustes ruine:
- 1774, John Burgoyne, The Maid of the Oaks, London: T. Becket, Act I, Scene 1, p. 6,
- 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!
- 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth (novel), Chapter 25,
- It might be […] that Ruth had worked her way through the deep purgatory of repentance up to something like purity again; God only knew!
- 1904, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (novel), Chapter 10,
- 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.
- 1997, J. M. Coetzee, Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, Penguin, Chapter 11, p. 100,
- […] 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.
- 1605, Nicholas Breton, An Olde Mans Lesson, and a Young Mans Loue, London: Edward White,
- German: Purgatorium
- Portuguese: suplício
purgatory
- Tending to cleanse; expiatory.
- 1600, Philemon Holland (translator), Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Livy) Written by Livy, London, Book 41, p. 1103,
- 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.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, London: J. Dodsley, p. 272,
- This purgatory interval is not unfavourable to a faithless representative, who may be as good a canvasser as he was a bad governor.
- 1600, Philemon Holland (translator), Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Livy) Written by Livy, London, Book 41, p. 1103,
Purgatory
Proper noun
- (Christianity) An intermediate state after death in which some of those ultimately destined for Heaven must first undergo purification prior to entering Heaven.
- French: purgatoire
- German: Fegefeuer, Fegfeuer, (rare) Purgatorium
- Italian: purgatorio
- Portuguese: purgatório
- Russian: чисти́лище
- Spanish: purgatorio
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