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Definition: Purgatory |
PurgatoryNoun1. A temporary condition of torment or suffering: "a purgatory of drug abuse". 2. (theology) a place where Roman Catholics think those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "purgatory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Literature | Purgatory The Jewish Rabbi believed that the soul of the deceased was consigned to a sort of purgatory for twelve months after death, during which time it was allowed to visit its dead body and the places or persons it especially loved. This intermediate state they called by various names, as "the bosom of Abraham," "the garden of Eden," "upper Gehenna." The Sabbath was always a free day, and prayer was supposed to benefit those in this intermediate state. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Catholic theology, Purgatory is a place of cleansing after the particular judgment. After death, persons who repented of their sins but had not expiated them in life are purged before entering heaven. Because everyone who enters Purgatory will eventually reach heaven, it is not some lesser form of Hell. Prayers for the dead or indulgences can shorten one's own or loved one's stays therein.
The Eastern Orthodox church does not treat the concept of Purgatory as a dogma, per se; however, they do traditionally offer prayers for the dead, asking God to show them his mercy and loving kindness. Theosis, the process of becoming more like God and more united with God, can begin in this life and can continue after death.
Protestant churches generally reject the belief in purgatory. Catholics quote II Maccabees 12:45 in defence; but Protestant do not recognise that book as canonical as it is in a group of books called by Protestants the Apocrypha and by Catholics and Orthodox the Deuterocanonical Books. Other Bible verses cited by Catholics and Orthodox are Daniel 12:10, Zechariah 13:9, Malachi 3:2-3, Matthew 5:26, Luke 12:47-48, Luke 12:58-59, 1 Corinthians 3:13-15, among others.
The Jewish Talmud speaks of Purgatory in Sabbath 33b and Rosh HaShanah 16b-17a; the Jewish belief in Purgatory and the efficacy of prayers for the dead is manifest in the Mourner's Qaddish which is prayed for 11 months after a loved one dies.
See also: Heaven, Hell, Limbo
Purgatory or Purgatorio is the second book of Dante's Divine Comedy.External links
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Purgatory."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Atonement | Penance, fasting, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, white sheet, shrift, flagellation, lustration; purgation, purgatory. |
Hell | Purgatory, limbo, gehenna, abyss. |
Pain | Pang, anguish, agony; torture, torment; purgatory; (hell). |
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Crosswords: Purgatory |
| English words defined with "purgatory": All Souls' Day ♦ Dante, Dante Alighieri ♦ November 2 ♦ purgatorial, Purgatorian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "purgatory": Adhab-al-Cabr, Armenians ♦ Nosnot-Bocai ♦ Owain ♦ Patrick's Cave, Patrick's Purgatory ♦ Sin-eaters, Stewing in their own Gravy. (references) |
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Screenplays | She just stopped by to remind me that my life is an endless purgatory, interrupted by profound moments of misery. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) Let's move on to Hell and Purgatory, also known as the gym and locker rooms. (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll) You went to purgatory, my friend. (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramn De Espaa) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tumbleweed: Baron of Purgatory (1959) Dinner in Purgatory (1994) Purgatory (1988) | |
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Abraham Lincoln | Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The particular judgment was over and the soul had passed to the abode of bliss or to the prison of purgatory or had been hurled howling into hell. |
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| "Purgatory" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Purgatory" is used about 116 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 116 | 29,969 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "purgatory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | purgator (loosener), pastrues (abstergent, care-taker, laxative, orderly, purgative, purgatorial, purificatory, purifier, rectifier, refiner, scavenger, swabber, swamper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المطهر (purificator), الأعراف حاجز بين الجنة والنار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чистилище. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 炼狱. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | oèistec. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vagevuur, purgatorium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | purgatorio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | skírnareldur, reinsanareldur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پالایشی , وسیله تطهیر, تطهیری (Purgative), دربرزخ قراردادن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kiirastuli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | purgatoire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Fegefeuer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθαρτήριο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מחטא (antiseptic, disinfectant, disinfector), 'י" ום (hell, inferno, pandemonium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | purgatórium, tisztítótűz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | purgatorio (purgatorial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 煉獄 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | れ""く. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 연옥. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | purgeydeyr, pulgeydory. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urgatorypay purgatório. (various references) purgatoriu. (various references) ущелье (coomb, couloir, defile, donga, gap, gorge, gulch, kloof, linn, notch, pass, ravine), очистительный (cathartic, purgative, purgatorial, purificatory). (various references) purgadoir, purgadair (purifier). (various references) čistilište. (various references) purgatorio. (various references) skärseld. (various references) สถานการ"์ที่เลวร้ายมาก, สถานที่วิญญา"รับโทษทั"ฑ์ก่อนขึ้นสวรรค์. (various references) günahtan arınmak için acı çekilen yer, araf. (various references) ущелина (couloir, crevice, defile, hope, notch, nullah, opening, pass, ravine, rift), чистилище. (various references) sự ăn năn hối lỗi nơi chuộc tội, nơi ăn năn hối lỗi, l m trong sạch, l m trong, l m sạch (abstergent, abstersive, purificatory). (various references) purdan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "purgatory": expurgatory. (additional references) | |
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"Purgatory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lurgantarry, Murgatroid, pargatory, pergatory, puragatory, purgatoty, purrgatory. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "purgatory" (pronounced per"gutô'rē) |
| 6 | -g u t ô' r ē | derogatory, interrogatory, investigatory, obligatory. |
| 5 | -u t ô' r ē | accusatory, aleatory, ambulatory, anticipatory, articulatory, auditory, celebratory, circulatory, compensatory, conciliatory, confirmatory, confiscatory, congratulatory, contributory, declaratory, defamatory, depilatory, depository, dilatory, discriminatory, dormitory, excretory, exculpatory, expiratory, explanatory, exploratory, hallucinatory, incantatory, inflammatory, inhibitory, laboratory, laudatory, lavatory, mandatory, migratory, nondiscriminatory, observatory, oratory, oscillatory, participatory, predatory, preparatory, prohibitory, reformatory, regulatory, repository, respiratory, retaliatory, revelatory, signatory, statutory, territory, transitory. |
| 4 | -t ô' r ē | desultory, multistory, repertory, understory. |
| 3 | -ô' r ē | allegory, category, outlawry, promissory. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-o-p-r-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: grayout, gyrator, outpray, parroty, portray. | |
-3 letters: agouty, grouty, parrot, payout, ragout, ragtop, raptor, rotary, turgor, uproar, yogurt. | |
-4 letters: aport, argot, atopy, gator, gouty, grapy, groat, group, grout, gurry, guyot, pargo, parry, party, payor, porgy, pouty, pruta, roupy, tarry, yurta. | |
-5 letters: arty, atop, auto, gapy, gaur, goat, gorp, gory, gout, grat, gray, grot, guar, gyro. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-o-p-r-r-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: expurgatory. | |
+4 letters: daguerreotype, daguerreotypy. | |
+5 letters: daguerreotyped, daguerreotypes, pyrometallurgy, supererogatory. | |
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