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Meanings of purgatory in inglés
Intermediate state after death for purification, according to the belief of some Christians.
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Usage of purgatory in inglés
1
Roman Catholicism: last rites; purgatory; Rousseau and; transubstantiation; vampires and; Voltaire and
2
I found that they were all like men in purgatory-soberand grave.
3
It's been purgatory this year, frogspawn frozen, broad beans blackened by frost.
4
The kids consider it near purgatory to visit their grandmother these days.
5
The priests never thought of it, but there lies the real purgatory.
6
The pang of the body strikes years of purgatory from thy doom.
7
Mediæval doctors thought that purgatory might be the middle of the earth.
8
But Jacoba must have felt as if she were already in purgatory.
9
Some piety on this earth was bound to lessen the purgatory period.
10
The Son of God told of no purgatory-onlyof heaven and hell.
11
We've merely to think of the purgatory in which we are placed.
12
The souls in purgatory can do nothing to shorten their time there.
13
He would pass through the pains of purgatory with never a grumble.
14
For Howard the moment was nothing less than a section of purgatory.
15
They nadn't tell me that all the heretics will stay in purgatory.
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Grandpa would think I was headed straight for purgatory if he knew.
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