Purgatory

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Purgatory.
   alt-of, countable, uncountable
2. An intermediate state after death in which some of those ultimately destined for Heaven must first undergo purification.
3. Any situation where suffering is endured, particularly as part of a process of redemption.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“[…] many Gods breedeth heathens miseries, many countries trauailers humors, many wiues mens purgatories, and many friends trustes ruine:”

“I laid my rank and fortune at the fair one’s feet, and would have⟳ married instantly; but that Oldworth opposed my precipitancy, and insisted upon a probation of six months absence—It has been a purgatory!”

“It might be […] that Ruth had worked her way through the deep purgatory of repentance up to something like⟳ purity again; God only knew!”

“Later came midsummer, with the stifling heat, when the dingy killing beds of Durham’s became a very purgatory; one time, in a single day, three men fell dead from sunstroke.”

“[…] that would mean⟳ he would be irrecoverably Afrikaans and would have⟳ to spend⟳ years in the purgatory of an Afrikaans boarding-school, as all farm-children do, before he would be allowed to come⟳ back to the farm.”

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