purgatorial

Adjective

purgatorial (comparative more purgatorial, superlative most purgatorial)

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling purgatory.
   • What aunswere then will you make to him that shall frame out of Saynt Paul an argument to ouerthrow the whole force and estimacion of your Purgatory on this wise?
     Fe. Christ needeth no Purgatoriall Expiation.
     Ri, Christ is our Righteousnes, out of S. Paul.
     So. Ergo. Our Righteousnes needeth not any...1581, Walter Haddon et al., translated by James Bell, Against Ierome Osorius Byshopp of Siluane in Portingall, London: John Daye, Book 3
   • At the same time, [the three bishops] emitted a summary confession of their faith […] that there is no purgatorial state after this life […]1784, John Brown, A Compendious History of the British Churches in England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, volume 1, Glasgow, page 113
2. That purifies by removing sin; expiatory.
   • But to enter the Church in such an unscholarly way that he could not in any probability rise to a higher grade through all his career than that of the humble curate wearing his life out in an obscure village or city slum—that might have a touch of goodness and greatness in it; that might be true...1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part 3, Chapter 1
   • Often […] exile is conceived as a purgatorial experience which the West Indian must undergo in order to know himself.1970, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, “George Lamming and the Colonial Situation”, in Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics, London: Heinemann, page 127