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Purgatorial

Purgatorial meaning

Of, pertaining to, or resembling purgatory. | That purifies by removing sin; expiatory.

Example sentences (2)

Combined with Trump’s light schedule — he went for almost a week without an official event — the building has taken on a purgatorial feeling, with staffers caught between a President refusing to accept loss and the reality they will be out of a job soon.

Augustine taught that the eternal fate of the soul is determined at death, citation Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion, 110 and that purgatorial fires of the intermediate state purify only those that died in communion with the Church.