Definition of purgatory in English:

purgatory

nounPlural purgatories ˈpəːɡət(ə)riˈpərɡəˌtɔri

1(in Catholic doctrine) a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven.
（天主教教义）炼狱
all her sins were forgiven and she would not need to go to Purgatory
the punishment of souls in purgatory
Example sentencesExamples
- He explains that as a Catholic, the ideas of purgatory, heaven and hell, enter strongly into Kelly's worldview and because of this he must convince the audience, and himself, of his innocence.
- In the purgatory, he meets Beatrice, who takes him by the hand and - you guess it it - leads him to paradise.
- At the same time, the emphasis on the life of the soul in purgatory, heaven, or hell made the corpse irrelevant to popular perceptions of life after death.
- Peruvians' notion of an afterlife very much follows Catholic notions of heaven, purgatory, and hell.
- We Catholics believe in the purgatory and the heavens.
- All sins must be paid for, and those who had not done enough good deeds in life to compensate must suffer pain in purgatory until their sins were expiated
- There is a selection of prayers for the souls in purgatory.
- I might add that none of this will be truly impressive until scientists find a way to measure the effects on souls in purgatory, traditionally the chief target of intercessory prayer.
- One answer to the optimists' dilemma is a resurgent and slightly revised doctrine of purgatory.
- Pope Sixtus IV's fund-raising campaign touted indulgences which would free your deceased loved ones suffering in purgatory.
- Sit near the exit or offer up your suffering to the poor souls in purgatory.
- She suffered greatly in her final years, yet always offered it up for the poor suffering souls in purgatory.
- I think he has applied his vast study of Augustine's writings on the redemptive power of suffering and the Church's teaching on purgatory.
- Christianity believes in the purificatory fires of the purgatory, and the eternal fires of hell.
- Shows last week had discussions on Marian devotion, purgatory, and other Catholic doctrines.
- This extra bit of sleep, gratuitous as it is, makes me think of the refrigerium, or heavenly refreshment, that souls in purgatory are said to enjoy on occasion.
- A Catholic priest gives the last rites to the dying and may offer a mass for a soul that departed to purgatory before making peace with God.
- Founded either by individuals, guilds, or corporations, chantries were endowments for offering masses usually near a person's tomb or effigy, for the soul's repose in purgatory.
- These were endowments to pay for masses to be sung (Latin cantare, ‘to sing’), usually near a tomb or effigy, for the repose of one or more souls in purgatory.
- By depicting kings and emperors suffering torments in purgatory, thinly-veiled criticisms were levelled at rulers who did not live up to the model of Christian kingship.
1. 1.1mass noun Mental anguish or suffering.
  （精神上的）痛苦（或苦楚）
  this was purgatory, worse than anything she'd faced in her life
  这是她有生以来遭遇的最糟糕的精神折磨。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The long-suffering Tory faithful may feel they are going through hell; but last week's policy renaissance proved they are only in the temporary state of purgatory.
  But to travel hundreds of miles to do this again and again, end on end, night after night, seems like a freehand sketch of purgatory.
  But then Queensland seems to operate under some weird and wonderful political theology when it comes to who can be rehabilitated and who must remain in purgatory.
  Second, you must submit to a two-and-a-half year purgatory of character assassination and blatant distortion of your record as a public official.
  It tells a story, too, that is very much of our times: that of bearing witness, from the eerie comfort of a new world, to a past for which the present must dwell in an endless, civilised purgatory.
  I find it particularly galling because, in this country, we have had to suffer pretty near total purgatory at the hands of our various enforcement agencies who seem to start from the premise that we are all members of that same Mafia clan.
  So perhaps before we indulge ourselves in a ritual sneer at those luckless rich, with their empty life of floating purgatory, we should look a little harder at ourselves and our own view of the outside world.
  In some of his paintings it is as if he has been to hell and back, a reporter from the frontier of purgatory.
  No wonder he told reporters last week: ‘It was pure purgatory.’
  Chris, then, has fallen from grace and is living in a kind of purgatory, respected but terribly alone, knowing he can never be forgiven because the person he wronged is dead.
  Allow me to explain: today, my library's copies of the Wolves in the Walls arrived, to much jubilation, after sitting in cataloging purgatory for some time.
  For Arthur, separation from Alec was purgatory, although the pair believed they were in touch telepathically.
  According to the log book, there is no date for an end to the team's purgatory - the word ‘indefinite’ leaps off the page where their start date should be inserted.
  He maintains the youngster's idea of purgatory is a couple of hours on a running track or in a gym.
  I had to say goodbye to my girlfriend so I could come back and get into shorthand classes - transition from bliss down to purgatory.
  Residents of a South Lakeland hamlet are in political purgatory after members of the parish council resigned over red tape.
  I didn't blog for a couple of days over Easter because I was in purgatory - a village on the South Wales coast, near Cardiff - doing the family thing.
  The Dubliner had been loitering in football's equivalent of purgatory since his high-profile sacking from Leeds United in June 2002.
  I felt suspended in some kind of mental purgatory that demanded that I experience the collective disappointment of each and every person there.
  I am still heavily medicated and in pain, but can't see an end to this purgatory.
  Synonyms
  torment, torture, misery, suffering, affliction, anguish, agony, wretchedness, woe, tribulation, hell, hell on earth
  an ordeal, a nightmare, a hellhole, an abyss
  trials and tribulations

adjective ˈpəːɡət(ə)riˈpərɡəˌtɔri

archaic

Having the quality of cleansing or purifying.
〈古〉清洗的；清除的；净化的
infernal punishments are purgatory and medicinal
地狱的惩罚既有涤罪又有药到病除的作用。

Derivatives

purgatorial

adjective pəːɡəˈtɔːrɪəlˌpərɡəˈtɔriəl

This often results in a purgatorial sort of existence, with tenants waiting for the time when they'll be able to buy their own place before they expend any great effort on the environment they want to live in.
Example sentencesExamples
- The first stop is an infinite queue snaking along a drab purgatorial waiting room.
- The phrase has purgatorial resonances: you feel that those who are in the waiting-room are going to be there for some time.
- It makes life too much of a purgatorial balancing conundrum, where pleasure and pain are a roll of the dice.
- The purgatorial state of the nation comes, she argues, from its twisted roots as a colony that never said goodbye to the Crown and a struggle between two official tongues.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French purgatorie or medieval Latin purgatorium, neuter (used as a noun) of late Latin purgatorius 'purifying', from the verb purgare (see purge).

Rhymes

expurgatory, objurgatory

Definition of purgatory in US English:

purgatory

nounˈpərɡəˌtɔriˈpərɡəˌtôrē

1(in Roman Catholic doctrine) a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven.
（天主教教义）炼狱
Example sentencesExamples
- Peruvians' notion of an afterlife very much follows Catholic notions of heaven, purgatory, and hell.
- There is a selection of prayers for the souls in purgatory.
- One answer to the optimists' dilemma is a resurgent and slightly revised doctrine of purgatory.
- These were endowments to pay for masses to be sung (Latin cantare, ‘to sing’), usually near a tomb or effigy, for the repose of one or more souls in purgatory.
- She suffered greatly in her final years, yet always offered it up for the poor suffering souls in purgatory.
- Pope Sixtus IV's fund-raising campaign touted indulgences which would free your deceased loved ones suffering in purgatory.
- Christianity believes in the purificatory fires of the purgatory, and the eternal fires of hell.
- This extra bit of sleep, gratuitous as it is, makes me think of the refrigerium, or heavenly refreshment, that souls in purgatory are said to enjoy on occasion.
- By depicting kings and emperors suffering torments in purgatory, thinly-veiled criticisms were levelled at rulers who did not live up to the model of Christian kingship.
- I think he has applied his vast study of Augustine's writings on the redemptive power of suffering and the Church's teaching on purgatory.
- Founded either by individuals, guilds, or corporations, chantries were endowments for offering masses usually near a person's tomb or effigy, for the soul's repose in purgatory.
- In the purgatory, he meets Beatrice, who takes him by the hand and - you guess it it - leads him to paradise.
- At the same time, the emphasis on the life of the soul in purgatory, heaven, or hell made the corpse irrelevant to popular perceptions of life after death.
- We Catholics believe in the purgatory and the heavens.
- Sit near the exit or offer up your suffering to the poor souls in purgatory.
- He explains that as a Catholic, the ideas of purgatory, heaven and hell, enter strongly into Kelly's worldview and because of this he must convince the audience, and himself, of his innocence.
- A Catholic priest gives the last rites to the dying and may offer a mass for a soul that departed to purgatory before making peace with God.
- I might add that none of this will be truly impressive until scientists find a way to measure the effects on souls in purgatory, traditionally the chief target of intercessory prayer.
- All sins must be paid for, and those who had not done enough good deeds in life to compensate must suffer pain in purgatory until their sins were expiated
- Shows last week had discussions on Marian devotion, purgatory, and other Catholic doctrines.
1. 1.1 Mental anguish or suffering.
  （精神上的）痛苦（或苦楚）
  this was purgatory, worse than anything she'd faced in her life
  这是她有生以来遭遇的最糟糕的精神折磨。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I felt suspended in some kind of mental purgatory that demanded that I experience the collective disappointment of each and every person there.
  In some of his paintings it is as if he has been to hell and back, a reporter from the frontier of purgatory.
  Chris, then, has fallen from grace and is living in a kind of purgatory, respected but terribly alone, knowing he can never be forgiven because the person he wronged is dead.
  No wonder he told reporters last week: ‘It was pure purgatory.’
  Residents of a South Lakeland hamlet are in political purgatory after members of the parish council resigned over red tape.
  So perhaps before we indulge ourselves in a ritual sneer at those luckless rich, with their empty life of floating purgatory, we should look a little harder at ourselves and our own view of the outside world.
  But then Queensland seems to operate under some weird and wonderful political theology when it comes to who can be rehabilitated and who must remain in purgatory.
  Second, you must submit to a two-and-a-half year purgatory of character assassination and blatant distortion of your record as a public official.
  The long-suffering Tory faithful may feel they are going through hell; but last week's policy renaissance proved they are only in the temporary state of purgatory.
  I had to say goodbye to my girlfriend so I could come back and get into shorthand classes - transition from bliss down to purgatory.
  I didn't blog for a couple of days over Easter because I was in purgatory - a village on the South Wales coast, near Cardiff - doing the family thing.
  The Dubliner had been loitering in football's equivalent of purgatory since his high-profile sacking from Leeds United in June 2002.
  I am still heavily medicated and in pain, but can't see an end to this purgatory.
  It tells a story, too, that is very much of our times: that of bearing witness, from the eerie comfort of a new world, to a past for which the present must dwell in an endless, civilised purgatory.
  According to the log book, there is no date for an end to the team's purgatory - the word ‘indefinite’ leaps off the page where their start date should be inserted.
  I find it particularly galling because, in this country, we have had to suffer pretty near total purgatory at the hands of our various enforcement agencies who seem to start from the premise that we are all members of that same Mafia clan.
  But to travel hundreds of miles to do this again and again, end on end, night after night, seems like a freehand sketch of purgatory.
  He maintains the youngster's idea of purgatory is a couple of hours on a running track or in a gym.
  Allow me to explain: today, my library's copies of the Wolves in the Walls arrived, to much jubilation, after sitting in cataloging purgatory for some time.
  For Arthur, separation from Alec was purgatory, although the pair believed they were in touch telepathically.
  Synonyms
  torment, torture, misery, suffering, affliction, anguish, agony, wretchedness, woe, tribulation, hell, hell on earth

adjectiveˈpərɡəˌtɔriˈpərɡəˌtôrē

archaic

Having the quality of cleansing or purifying.
〈古〉清洗的；清除的；净化的
infernal punishments are purgatory and medicinal
地狱的惩罚既有涤罪又有药到病除的作用。

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French purgatorie or medieval Latin purgatorium, neuter (used as a noun) of late Latin purgatorius ‘purifying’, from the verb purgare (see purge).

词汇	purgatory
释义	Definition of purgatory in English: purgatory nounPlural purgatories ˈpəːɡət(ə)riˈpərɡəˌtɔri 1(in Catholic doctrine) a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven. （天主教教义）炼狱 all her sins were forgiven and she would not need to go to Purgatory the punishment of souls in purgatory Example sentencesExamples He explains that as a Catholic, the ideas of purgatory, heaven and hell, enter strongly into Kelly's worldview and because of this he must convince the audience, and himself, of his innocence. In the purgatory, he meets Beatrice, who takes him by the hand and - you guess it it - leads him to paradise. At the same time, the emphasis on the life of the soul in purgatory, heaven, or hell made the corpse irrelevant to popular perceptions of life after death. Peruvians' notion of an afterlife very much follows Catholic notions of heaven, purgatory, and hell. We Catholics believe in the purgatory and the heavens. All sins must be paid for, and those who had not done enough good deeds in life to compensate must suffer pain in purgatory until their sins were expiated There is a selection of prayers for the souls in purgatory. I might add that none of this will be truly impressive until scientists find a way to measure the effects on souls in purgatory, traditionally the chief target of intercessory prayer. One answer to the optimists' dilemma is a resurgent and slightly revised doctrine of purgatory. Pope Sixtus IV's fund-raising campaign touted indulgences which would free your deceased loved ones suffering in purgatory. Sit near the exit or offer up your suffering to the poor souls in purgatory. She suffered greatly in her final years, yet always offered it up for the poor suffering souls in purgatory. I think he has applied his vast study of Augustine's writings on the redemptive power of suffering and the Church's teaching on purgatory. Christianity believes in the purificatory fires of the purgatory, and the eternal fires of hell. Shows last week had discussions on Marian devotion, purgatory, and other Catholic doctrines. This extra bit of sleep, gratuitous as it is, makes me think of the refrigerium, or heavenly refreshment, that souls in purgatory are said to enjoy on occasion. A Catholic priest gives the last rites to the dying and may offer a mass for a soul that departed to purgatory before making peace with God. Founded either by individuals, guilds, or corporations, chantries were endowments for offering masses usually near a person's tomb or effigy, for the soul's repose in purgatory. These were endowments to pay for masses to be sung (Latin cantare, ‘to sing’), usually near a tomb or effigy, for the repose of one or more souls in purgatory. By depicting kings and emperors suffering torments in purgatory, thinly-veiled criticisms were levelled at rulers who did not live up to the model of Christian kingship. 1.1mass noun Mental anguish or suffering. （精神上的）痛苦（或苦楚） this was purgatory, worse than anything she'd faced in her life 这是她有生以来遭遇的最糟糕的精神折磨。 Example sentencesExamples The long-suffering Tory faithful may feel they are going through hell; but last week's policy renaissance proved they are only in the temporary state of purgatory. But to travel hundreds of miles to do this again and again, end on end, night after night, seems like a freehand sketch of purgatory. But then Queensland seems to operate under some weird and wonderful political theology when it comes to who can be rehabilitated and who must remain in purgatory. Second, you must submit to a two-and-a-half year purgatory of character assassination and blatant distortion of your record as a public official. It tells a story, too, that is very much of our times: that of bearing witness, from the eerie comfort of a new world, to a past for which the present must dwell in an endless, civilised purgatory. I find it particularly galling because, in this country, we have had to suffer pretty near total purgatory at the hands of our various enforcement agencies who seem to start from the premise that we are all members of that same Mafia clan. So perhaps before we indulge ourselves in a ritual sneer at those luckless rich, with their empty life of floating purgatory, we should look a little harder at ourselves and our own view of the outside world. In some of his paintings it is as if he has been to hell and back, a reporter from the frontier of purgatory. No wonder he told reporters last week: ‘It was pure purgatory.’ Chris, then, has fallen from grace and is living in a kind of purgatory, respected but terribly alone, knowing he can never be forgiven because the person he wronged is dead. Allow me to explain: today, my library's copies of the Wolves in the Walls arrived, to much jubilation, after sitting in cataloging purgatory for some time. For Arthur, separation from Alec was purgatory, although the pair believed they were in touch telepathically. According to the log book, there is no date for an end to the team's purgatory - the word ‘indefinite’ leaps off the page where their start date should be inserted. He maintains the youngster's idea of purgatory is a couple of hours on a running track or in a gym. I had to say goodbye to my girlfriend so I could come back and get into shorthand classes - transition from bliss down to purgatory. Residents of a South Lakeland hamlet are in political purgatory after members of the parish council resigned over red tape. I didn't blog for a couple of days over Easter because I was in purgatory - a village on the South Wales coast, near Cardiff - doing the family thing. The Dubliner had been loitering in football's equivalent of purgatory since his high-profile sacking from Leeds United in June 2002. I felt suspended in some kind of mental purgatory that demanded that I experience the collective disappointment of each and every person there. I am still heavily medicated and in pain, but can't see an end to this purgatory. Synonyms torment, torture, misery, suffering, affliction, anguish, agony, wretchedness, woe, tribulation, hell, hell on earth an ordeal, a nightmare, a hellhole, an abyss trials and tribulations adjective ˈpəːɡət(ə)riˈpərɡəˌtɔri archaic Having the quality of cleansing or purifying. 〈古〉清洗的；清除的；净化的 infernal punishments are purgatory and medicinal 地狱的惩罚既有涤罪又有药到病除的作用。 Derivatives purgatorial adjective pəːɡəˈtɔːrɪəlˌpərɡəˈtɔriəl This often results in a purgatorial sort of existence, with tenants waiting for the time when they'll be able to buy their own place before they expend any great effort on the environment they want to live in. Example sentencesExamples The first stop is an infinite queue snaking along a drab purgatorial waiting room. The phrase has purgatorial resonances: you feel that those who are in the waiting-room are going to be there for some time. It makes life too much of a purgatorial balancing conundrum, where pleasure and pain are a roll of the dice. The purgatorial state of the nation comes, she argues, from its twisted roots as a colony that never said goodbye to the Crown and a struggle between two official tongues. Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French purgatorie or medieval Latin purgatorium, neuter (used as a noun) of late Latin purgatorius 'purifying', from the verb purgare (see purge). Rhymes expurgatory, objurgatory Definition of purgatory in US English: purgatory nounˈpərɡəˌtɔriˈpərɡəˌtôrē 1(in Roman Catholic doctrine) a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven. （天主教教义）炼狱 Example sentencesExamples Peruvians' notion of an afterlife very much follows Catholic notions of heaven, purgatory, and hell. There is a selection of prayers for the souls in purgatory. One answer to the optimists' dilemma is a resurgent and slightly revised doctrine of purgatory. These were endowments to pay for masses to be sung (Latin cantare, ‘to sing’), usually near a tomb or effigy, for the repose of one or more souls in purgatory. She suffered greatly in her final years, yet always offered it up for the poor suffering souls in purgatory. Pope Sixtus IV's fund-raising campaign touted indulgences which would free your deceased loved ones suffering in purgatory. Christianity believes in the purificatory fires of the purgatory, and the eternal fires of hell. This extra bit of sleep, gratuitous as it is, makes me think of the refrigerium, or heavenly refreshment, that souls in purgatory are said to enjoy on occasion. By depicting kings and emperors suffering torments in purgatory, thinly-veiled criticisms were levelled at rulers who did not live up to the model of Christian kingship. I think he has applied his vast study of Augustine's writings on the redemptive power of suffering and the Church's teaching on purgatory. Founded either by individuals, guilds, or corporations, chantries were endowments for offering masses usually near a person's tomb or effigy, for the soul's repose in purgatory. In the purgatory, he meets Beatrice, who takes him by the hand and - you guess it it - leads him to paradise. At the same time, the emphasis on the life of the soul in purgatory, heaven, or hell made the corpse irrelevant to popular perceptions of life after death. We Catholics believe in the purgatory and the heavens. Sit near the exit or offer up your suffering to the poor souls in purgatory. He explains that as a Catholic, the ideas of purgatory, heaven and hell, enter strongly into Kelly's worldview and because of this he must convince the audience, and himself, of his innocence. A Catholic priest gives the last rites to the dying and may offer a mass for a soul that departed to purgatory before making peace with God. I might add that none of this will be truly impressive until scientists find a way to measure the effects on souls in purgatory, traditionally the chief target of intercessory prayer. All sins must be paid for, and those who had not done enough good deeds in life to compensate must suffer pain in purgatory until their sins were expiated Shows last week had discussions on Marian devotion, purgatory, and other Catholic doctrines. 1.1 Mental anguish or suffering. （精神上的）痛苦（或苦楚） this was purgatory, worse than anything she'd faced in her life 这是她有生以来遭遇的最糟糕的精神折磨。 Example sentencesExamples I felt suspended in some kind of mental purgatory that demanded that I experience the collective disappointment of each and every person there. In some of his paintings it is as if he has been to hell and back, a reporter from the frontier of purgatory. Chris, then, has fallen from grace and is living in a kind of purgatory, respected but terribly alone, knowing he can never be forgiven because the person he wronged is dead. No wonder he told reporters last week: ‘It was pure purgatory.’ Residents of a South Lakeland hamlet are in political purgatory after members of the parish council resigned over red tape. So perhaps before we indulge ourselves in a ritual sneer at those luckless rich, with their empty life of floating purgatory, we should look a little harder at ourselves and our own view of the outside world. But then Queensland seems to operate under some weird and wonderful political theology when it comes to who can be rehabilitated and who must remain in purgatory. Second, you must submit to a two-and-a-half year purgatory of character assassination and blatant distortion of your record as a public official. The long-suffering Tory faithful may feel they are going through hell; but last week's policy renaissance proved they are only in the temporary state of purgatory. I had to say goodbye to my girlfriend so I could come back and get into shorthand classes - transition from bliss down to purgatory. I didn't blog for a couple of days over Easter because I was in purgatory - a village on the South Wales coast, near Cardiff - doing the family thing. The Dubliner had been loitering in football's equivalent of purgatory since his high-profile sacking from Leeds United in June 2002. I am still heavily medicated and in pain, but can't see an end to this purgatory. It tells a story, too, that is very much of our times: that of bearing witness, from the eerie comfort of a new world, to a past for which the present must dwell in an endless, civilised purgatory. According to the log book, there is no date for an end to the team's purgatory - the word ‘indefinite’ leaps off the page where their start date should be inserted. I find it particularly galling because, in this country, we have had to suffer pretty near total purgatory at the hands of our various enforcement agencies who seem to start from the premise that we are all members of that same Mafia clan. But to travel hundreds of miles to do this again and again, end on end, night after night, seems like a freehand sketch of purgatory. He maintains the youngster's idea of purgatory is a couple of hours on a running track or in a gym. Allow me to explain: today, my library's copies of the Wolves in the Walls arrived, to much jubilation, after sitting in cataloging purgatory for some time. For Arthur, separation from Alec was purgatory, although the pair believed they were in touch telepathically. Synonyms torment, torture, misery, suffering, affliction, anguish, agony, wretchedness, woe, tribulation, hell, hell on earth adjectiveˈpərɡəˌtɔriˈpərɡəˌtôrē archaic Having the quality of cleansing or purifying. 〈古〉清洗的；清除的；净化的 infernal punishments are purgatory and medicinal 地狱的惩罚既有涤罪又有药到病除的作用。 Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French purgatorie or medieval Latin purgatorium, neuter (used as a noun) of late Latin purgatorius ‘purifying’, from the verb purgare (see purge).
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