INTERMEDIATE STATE AFTER DEATH FOR PURIFICATION, ACCORDING TO THE BELIEF OF SOME CHRISTIANS
Pergatory; Catholic Purgatory; Ignis purgatorium; Pergutory; Purgatory and world religions; Purgatory and World Religions; Purgitory; Purgatorial fire; Purgatory in world religions; Souls in Purgatory; Purification after death
·adj Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory.
II. Purgatory·noun A state or place of purification after death; according to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have been forgiven. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are believed to be received into heaven.
purgatory
INTERMEDIATE STATE AFTER DEATH FOR PURIFICATION, ACCORDING TO THE BELIEF OF SOME CHRISTIANS
Pergatory; Catholic Purgatory; Ignis purgatorium; Pergutory; Purgatory and world religions; Purgatory and World Religions; Purgitory; Purgatorial fire; Purgatory in world religions; Souls in Purgatory; Purification after death
['p?:g?t(?)ri]
¦ noun (plural purgatories)
1. (in Catholic doctrine) a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven.
2. mental anguish.
Derivatives
purgatorial adjective
Origin
ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. purgatorie or med. L. purgatorium, neut. of late L. purgatorius, from purgare (see purge).
purgatory
INTERMEDIATE STATE AFTER DEATH FOR PURIFICATION, ACCORDING TO THE BELIEF OF SOME CHRISTIANS
Pergatory; Catholic Purgatory; Ignis purgatorium; Pergutory; Purgatory and world religions; Purgatory and World Religions; Purgitory; Purgatorial fire; Purgatory in world religions; Souls in Purgatory; Purification after death
I. a.
Cleansing, expiatory.
II. n.
Limbo, hell, infernal regions, shades below.
Wikipédia
Purgatory
Purgatory (, borrowed into English via Anglo-Norman and Old French)"Purgatory", Oxford English Dictionary is, according to the belief of some Christian denominations (mostly Catholic), an intermediate state after physical death for expiatory purification."purgatory" , Merriam-Webster Dictionary The process of purgatory is the final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned.