purgatorial
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Definition(s):
- (adj) serving to purge or rid of sin
- (adj) of or resembling purgatory
Usage(s):
- Seven years after the Pope ended that purgatorial receivership, the Jesuits appear to have won John Paul's approval.
- In another photograph, deportees from Kosovo appear in a purgatorial ambience as they take shelter beneath a plastic tarpaulin.
- Then stumbles halfway up, to Betty Ford or some equivalent purgatorial rehab.
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