Purgatorian
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory.
"we must either suppose that passage to be metaphorical , or hold with many divines , and all the Purgatorians , that departed souls do not all at once arrive at the utmost perfection of which they are capable"
Example
More examples"we must either suppose that passage to be metaphorical , or hold with many divines , and all the Purgatorians , that departed souls do not all at once arrive at the utmost perfection of which they are capable"
Etymology
From purgatory + -ian.
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