Purgatorian

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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

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"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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