purgatory
purgatory is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory.
- 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.
- noun. (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins
- noun. a temporary condition of torment or suffering
"a purgatory of drug abuse"
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