purgatorial
- a serving to purge or rid of sin
purgatorial rites - a of or resembling purgatory
purgatorial fires
- In another photograph, deportees from Kosovo appear in a purgatorial ambience as they take shelter beneath a plastic tarpaulin.
- Of course, it'll take much more than a few weeks of populist outrage to challenge the purgatorial murk that defines India's politics as usual, as well as the grim injustices that .
- Seven years after the Pope ended that purgatorial receivership, the Jesuits appear to have won John Paul's approval.