purgatorial in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for purgatorial in the English»Spanish Dictionary

purgatorial [Am ˌpərɡəˈtɔriəl, Brit pəːɡəˈtɔːrɪəl] ADJ

purgatorial

purificador

purgatorial (of purgatory)

del purgatorio

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Bodily existence, no matter how attenuated and disembodied, means being condemned to a purgatorial state while caught inside an unstable and threatening reality.

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This is a thoughtful song about the kind of purgatorial nature of life and indeed nightlife.

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The heat in last night's episode was purgatorial.

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The early 20s are a weird time in anyone's life, a kind of purgatorial state that seems made for mistakes and experimentation.

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We can both move forward in time and also be stuck on some purgatorial loop of eternal return.

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The strings larded the lean earth as they plodded sclerotically along; even the big, brass-capped scream which breaks up valedictory hymns and purgatorial wanderings somehow pulled its punches.

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The play doesn't so much tell as story, as paint a picture of the shelter's purgatorial but pumped-up atmosphere.

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They seem to be working out some unfinished earthly business, or suffering some purgatorial purification until released from their earthly business.

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That would be a disastrous scenario - which would come with a hefty purgatorial price tag.

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In fact, through a series of narrative progressions the visitor is innocently plunged into a purgatorial route through the gallery's dimly lit spaces while watching and, unwittingly, being watched.

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