purgatorial

/pur-guh-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-/US // ˌpɜr gəˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr- //UK // (ˌpɜːɡəˈtɔːrɪəl) //

炼狱,炼狱式,炼狱式的,炼狱的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
- : of, relating to, or like purgatory.

adj.purgative

Synonyms

If any one washes once in the lake, the sins of his forefathers are forgiven, and their souls are relieved from purgatorial fires.
All this vexation makes a cold and headache doubly intolerable, and I am in a most purgatorial state on this "good Sunday."
The speakers were a pair of old Purgatorial Twins, not without alleviations, designed by Nature to multiply.
The sallies of a Schopenhauer and a Nietzsche lack the purgatorial note which religious sadness gives forth.
Surely hell, the place of punishment and purgatorial expiation, is actually upon this earth in such cases.

/pur-guh-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-/US // ˌpɜr gəˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr- //UK // (ˌpɜːɡəˈtɔːrɪəl) //

炼狱,炼狱式,炼狱式的,炼狱的

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
- : of, relating to, or like purgatory.

adj.purgative

Synonyms

If any one washes once in the lake, the sins of his forefathers are forgiven, and their souls are relieved from purgatorial fires.
All this vexation makes a cold and headache doubly intolerable, and I am in a most purgatorial state on this "good Sunday."
The speakers were a pair of old Purgatorial Twins, not without alleviations, designed by Nature to multiply.
The sallies of a Schopenhauer and a Nietzsche lack the purgatorial note which religious sadness gives forth.
Surely hell, the place of punishment and purgatorial expiation, is actually upon this earth in such cases.