purgatorial Meaning of "purgatorial"

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Definition(s):

  1. (adj) serving to purge or rid of sin
  2. (adj) of or resembling purgatory

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  1. Seven years after the Pope ended that purgatorial receivership, the Jesuits appear to have won John Paul's approval.
  2. In another photograph, deportees from Kosovo appear in a purgatorial ambience as they take shelter beneath a plastic tarpaulin.
  3. Then stumbles halfway up, to Betty Ford or some equivalent purgatorial rehab.
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