Purgatory

//ˈpɝɡəˌtɔɹi//

"Purgatory" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Marriage, in peace, is this world's paradise; in strife, this life's purgatory.

The invention of a purgatory, and of the releasing of souls therefrom, by prayers, bought of the church with money; the selling of pardons, dispensations, and indulgences, are revenue laws, without bearing that name or carrying that appearance.

As soon as a coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs.

I'm in purgatory.

The closest thing to a hell in Judaism is really more like a purgatory.

There is no hell or heaven, we are in the purgatory already.

Does purgatory exist?

[…] 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!

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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.

Last of all, the prodigie of Siracusa was expiat by a purgatory sacrifice, by direction from the soothsaiers to what gods, supplications and sacrifice should be made.

This purgatory interval is not unfavourable to a faithless representative, who may be as good a canvasser as he was a bad governor.

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