Usually means: Temporary state after death purification.
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  1. purgatory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. purgatory: Merriam-Webster
  3. purgatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. purgatory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. purgatory: Collins English Dictionary
  6. purgatory: Vocabulary.com
  7. Purgatory, purgatory: Wordnik
  8. Purgatory, purgatory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Purgatory, purgatory: Wiktionary
  10. purgatory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. purgatory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. purgatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. purgatory: Dictionary.com
  14. purgatory: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  16. Purgatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. purgatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. purgatory: Rhymezone
  19. Purgatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. purgatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Purgatory: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Purgatory: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. purgatory: FreeDictionary.org
  24. purgatory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. purgatory: TheFreeDictionary.com

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noun:  Any situation where suffering is endured, particularly as part of a process of redemption.
adjective:  Tending to cleanse; expiatory.
noun:  (Christianity) An intermediate state after death in which some of those ultimately destined for Heaven must first undergo purification.
noun:  (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Purgatory [(Christianity) An intermediate state after death in which some of those ultimately destined for Heaven must first undergo purification.]

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