"purgatory" meaning in English

See purgatory in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈpɝɡəˌtɔɹi/ [General-American], /ˈpɜːɡət(ə)ɹi/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-purgatory.wav Forms: more purgatory [comparative], most purgatory [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English purgatorie, from Old French purgatore, purgatorie, from Latin purgātōrium (“cleansing”). Cognate to English purge. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pewH-}}, {{inh|en|enm|purgatorie}} Middle English purgatorie, {{der|en|fro|purgatore}} Old French purgatore, {{der|en|la|purgātōrium||cleansing}} Latin purgātōrium (“cleansing”), {{cog|en|purge}} English purge Head templates: {{en-adj}} purgatory (comparative more purgatory, superlative most purgatory)
  1. Tending to cleanse; expiatory. Categories (topical): Afterlife Related terms: heaven, hell, limbo, gehenna
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Noun

IPA: /ˈpɝɡəˌtɔɹi/ [General-American], /ˈpɜːɡət(ə)ɹi/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-purgatory.wav Forms: purgatories [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English purgatorie, from Old French purgatore, purgatorie, from Latin purgātōrium (“cleansing”). Cognate to English purge. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pewH-}}, {{inh|en|enm|purgatorie}} Middle English purgatorie, {{der|en|fro|purgatore}} Old French purgatore, {{der|en|la|purgātōrium||cleansing}} Latin purgātōrium (“cleansing”), {{cog|en|purge}} English purge Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} purgatory (countable and uncountable, plural purgatories)
  1. (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Purgatory Tags: alt-of, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: Purgatory Categories (topical): Christianity, Theology
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  2. Any situation where suffering is endured, particularly as part of a process of redemption. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (situation causing suffering): očistec [masculine] (Czech), vagevuur (Dutch), kiirastuli (Finnish), Purgatorium [neuter] (German), purgatorie (Middle English), katusze [plural] (Polish), męka [feminine] (Polish), suplício [masculine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-purgatory-en-noun-nNPZtV6u Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Middle English translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 13 40 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 29 33 24 7 7 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 32 29 26 8 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 37 22 31 6 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 36 40 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 36 39 25 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 35 40 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Middle English translations: 34 39 27 Disambiguation of 'situation causing suffering': 5 95

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "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!",
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          "text": "It might be […] that Ruth had worked her way through the deep purgatory of repentance up to something like purity again; God only knew!",
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          "ref": "1904, Upton Sinclair, chapter 10, in The Jungle:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1997, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 11, in Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, Penguin, page 100:",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
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