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PRONUNCIATION OF PURGATORIAL

purgatorial  [ˌpɜːɡəˈtɔːrɪəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PURGATORIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Purgatorial is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PURGATORIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of purgatorial in the English dictionary

The definition of purgatorial in the dictionary is serving to purify from sin. Other definition of purgatorial is of, relating to, or like purgatory.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PURGATORIAL


advertorial
ˌædvɜːˈtɔːrɪəl
amatorial
ˌæməˈtɔːrɪəl
combinatorial
ˌkɒmbɪnəˈtɔːrɪəl
curatorial
ˌkjʊərəˈtɔːrɪəl
dictatorial
ˌdɪktəˈtɔːrɪəl
directorial
ˌdɪrekˈtɔːrɪəl
editorial
ˌɛdɪˈtɔːrɪəl
equatorial
ˌɛkwəˈtɔːrɪəl
factorial
fækˈtɔːrɪəl
gladiatorial
ˌɡlædɪəˈtɔːrɪəl
gubernatorial
ˌɡjuːbənəˈtɔːrɪəl
janitorial
ˌdʒænɪˈtɔːrɪəl
multifactorial
ˌmʌltɪfækˈtɔːrɪəl
pictorial
pɪkˈtɔːrɪəl
sartorial
sɑːˈtɔːrɪəl
sectorial
sɛkˈtɔːrɪəl
senatorial
ˌsɛnəˈtɔːrɪəl
territorial
ˌtɛrɪˈtɔːrɪəl
tutorial
tjuːˈtɔːrɪəl
vectorial
vɛkˈtɔːrɪəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PURGATORIAL

puree
purely
pureness
purfle
purfler
purfling
purfly
purgation
purgative
purgatively
purgatorially
purgatorian
purgatory
purge
purgeable
purger
Puri
purification
Purification of the Virgin Mary
purificative

WORDS THAT END LIKE PURGATORIAL

accessorial
ambassadorial
armorial
authorial
cantorial
categorial
consistorial
Escorial
extraterritorial
immemorial
industrial
manorial
memorial
piscatorial
professorial
responsorial
sensorial
tensorial
time immemorial
tonsorial
war memorial

Synonyms and antonyms of purgatorial in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «purgatorial» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PURGATORIAL

Find out the translation of purgatorial to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of purgatorial from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «purgatorial» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

炼狱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

purgatorial
570 millions of speakers

English

purgatorial
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

purgatorial
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

purgatorial
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

искупительный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

purgatório
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিশোধনমূলক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

purgatif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Purgatorial
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fegefeuer-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

煉獄の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

연옥
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Purgatorial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

luyện tội
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆன்ம தூய்மையாக்குகிற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शस्त्रक्रिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

purgatorial
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

purgatorio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

czyśćcowych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спокутний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

purgatoriu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καθαρτήριο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vagevuur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skärselds
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

purgatorial
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of purgatorial

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PURGATORIAL»

The term «purgatorial» is normally little used and occupies the 129.371 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PURGATORIAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «purgatorial» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «purgatorial» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about purgatorial

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PURGATORIAL»

Discover the use of purgatorial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to purgatorial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the ...
One final form of identity comes from what Frye calls the purgatorial progression or, following Keats, life as a "vale of soul-making."44 "My whole conscious life," he writes, referring to the shape of his career, "has been purgatorial" (LN, 1:89).
Robert D. Denham, 2004
2
Language, Metaphysics, and Death
Wall, of course, thinks that if God can create a purgatorial resurrection world, then he should have done so originally: "If a purgatorial existence does a better job of virtue-installation than the present form of existence, then the purgatorial ...
John Donnelly, 1994
3
The Design of The Waste Land
The image, if applicable, recalls two motifs central to TWL: Dante's Purgatorial Mountain, crowned by the Earthly Paradise and set in the midst of a sea, and St. John's Mount of Perfection, rocky and arid below, but crowned by the Garden ...
Burton Blistein, 2008
4
The Birth of Purgatory
In discussing penance in his Sutntna on the Art of Preaching {Sumtna de arte praedicatoria), Alan makes the following assertion: "There is a triple fire: purgatorial, probative, peremptory. The purgatorial fire is the satisfaction [of sins], the ...
Jacques Le Goff, 1986
5
A Companion to Samuel Beckett
12. A. Purgatorial. Calculus: Beckett's. Mathematics. in. “Quad”. Brett. Stevens. Introduction. Mathematics appears frequently in Samuel Beckett's writing. Molloy, the protagonist in the novel Molloy, the first book of Beckett's famed French novels ...
S. E. Gontarski, 2010
6
Women and Miracles Stories: A Multidisciplinary Exploration
Moreover, the cruel punishments society imposes on criminals, hanging them and breaking their limbs on racks, are shared by Christina as a part of her purgatorial penance. She stretches her arms and legs on the rack and suspends herself ...
Anne-Marie Korte, 2003
7
Considerationes modestae et pacificae controversiarum de ...
The Greeks in their Apology about purgatorial fire* write as follows ; " What ye say was held by the Blessed Theodoret — a man both wise and holy and who has obtained a great name for eloquence ; if indeed these words were found in our ...
William Forbes, George Hay Forbes, 1856
8
Purgatorial Soul
This is a collection of writings that I started when I was about 18 years old.
Ryan Wallace, 2008
9
Occasional Maxims & Maximum Occasions:
aspect of the brain, the Holy Spirit of Heaven transcends the brain in a lung- oriented spirituality which is as genuinely heavenly as the cerebral spirituality of the Holy Ghost is purgatorial. Conversely, where the Father only has reference to the ...
John O'Loughlin, 2010
10
Considerationes modestæ et pacificæ controversiarum de ...
The Greeks in their Apology about purgatorial firea write as follows ; " What ye say was held by the Blessed Theodpret — a man both wise and holy and who has obtained a great name for eloquence ; if indeed these words were found in our ...
William Forbes, 1856

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PURGATORIAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term purgatorial is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Miss USA 2015 Pageant Was A Nightmare But Not For The …
... stuck in some kind of unrelenting purgatorial dead zone. It's not the contestants' fault — the suffering I endured for three hours watching the competition was ... «Bustle, Jul 15»
2
Summer rains supreme
We then began pitching leeches to weed-beds of purgatorial marsh. Not lake, not land, where largemouth prey and walleyes wait in the shallows. A short time ... «Beaver Dam Daily Citizen, Jul 15»
3
5 things we learned from this week's surprising episode of True …
After having a cryptic and symbolic talk with what we later find out is an idealized version of his father in a (brilliant) purgatorial dream sequence while a Conway ... «For The Win, Jul 15»
4
Happy Days review – a real-life showbiz couple act in a bleak …
This isn't to say that she's free from misery. Hardly. But she approaches each new purgatorial day with a smile and song, trilling: “Ah well – no worse – no better, ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
5
Google says Hillary Clinton will be the next president
You have saved me from endless hours and days of purgatorial pain. You have offered me closure, even before the doomed affair had truly begun. My apologies ... «CNET, Jun 15»
6
On my radar: Iain Sinclair's cultural highlights
This was not a play, but a purgatorial incantation from the outskirts of amnesia. A seance-narrative of cemetery, canal, boarding house, immaculately performed ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
7
'Where', by Kit Reed
... a small island community off the South Carolina coast, mysteriously transported to a faceless, placeless, purgatorial anywhere from which there is no escape. «Financial Times, Jun 15»
8
Everything You Need To See From The Upside-Down-And …
newsletter. Home · MLB; Current Page. Everything You Need To See From The Upside-Down-And-Backwards Red Sox-Yankees Purgatorial 19-Inning Game ... «SportsGrid, Apr 15»
9
Blast From The Past: Lost in Translation Review
Hotels are neutralizing. They exist as these in-between purgatorial vacation places, where you can pretend to live without the nagging burdens of modern life. «The Houghton Star, Apr 15»
10
An Illustrated Look at Fake Spring
It's that time of year again, when the weather enters that purgatorial phase that is not-quite-winter but not-quite-spring. While the end of Fake Spring and the start ... «Torontoist, Apr 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Purgatorial [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/purgatorial>. Apr 2024 ».
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