purgatorial

Definitions

1. 1

   Of, pertaining to, or resembling purgatory.

   • At the same time, [the three bishops] emitted a summary confession of their faith […] that there is no purgatorial state after this life […]
   • […] can you suppose it would offend that benevolent Being […] to raise a devoted heart from purgatorial torments to a state of heavenly bliss, when you could do it without the slightest injury to yourself or any other?
2. 2

   That purifies by removing sin

   That purifies by removing sin; expiatory.

   • Often […] exile is conceived as a purgatorial experience which the West Indian must undergo in order to know himself.
   • Dante makes this earlier exchange into a protopilgrimage in the purgatorial style and retroactively imbues it with the weight of this later project, his sacrato poema.

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