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• n  a temporary condition of torment or suffering
  a purgatory of drug abuse
• n  (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins

• The Catholic equivalent of a get-out-of-purgatory-free card, indulgences are being used to encourage churchgoers to do more good works.
• To Americans living in Saudi Arabia, life in the oil-rich desert land of Mohammed is a sort of steamy purgatory.
• Alinari's Meeting Between Dante and Beatrice in Purgatory .

News & Articles

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• Joe Budden – "Not Need Yours (5 AM In The Friend Zone)” [LISTEN]
  Leave it up to Joe Budden to flip the script on a situation fellas tend to encounter. Men are sometimes put into a proverbial purgatory by the women they covet — affectionately coined "the friend zone." However, the scenario is switched on the New Jersey native's freebie track, "Not Need Yours."
  June 11, 2013 - Hip-Hop Wired
• Arrests
  Dale R. Sargent, 56, 899 W. Shady Lane, Coalville, was arrested Sunday on charges of unsafe travel without using a signal and driving under the influence as a second offense. Sargent was booked into Purgatory Correctional Facility on $1,405 bail.
  June 11, 2013 - The Spectrum
• Local golfers look to make noise at regional
  ANDERSON -- Two years ago, after the Pendleton Heights boys' golf team took the sectional title at Purgatory Golf Club, led by a medalist finish by then-freshman Colin Proctor, the Arabians failed to make it out of regionals as a team by tw
  June 7, 2013 - The Herald Bulletin