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Definitions of purgatory in various dictionaries:
noun - a temporary condition of torment or suffering
noun - (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins
A state in which the souls of those who have died in grace must expiate their sins.
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| In Catholicism it's where souls go when encumbered only by venial sins |
| In Catholicism it's the place of purification for the dead who still bear some trace of sin |
| Reformation thinkers denied the existence of this place of punishment to cleanse venial sins after death |
| From the Latin for "a place of cleansing", it's a place to cleanse your soul before entering heaven |
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| (in Catholic doctrine) a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven. |
| having the quality of cleansing or purifying. |
| (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins |
| a temporary condition of torment or suffering |
| the place to which Roman Catholics believe that the spirits of dead people go and suffer for the evil acts that they did while they were alive, before they are able to go to heaven |
| an extremely unpleasant experience that causes suffering: |
| Roman Catholic Church A state in which the souls of those who have died in grace must expiate their sins. |
| A place or condition of suffering, expiation, or remorse: a purgatory of drug abuse. |
| Tending to cleanse or purge. |
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| In Roman Catholic theology, purgatory (Latin: Purgatorium, via Anglo-Norman and Old French) is an intermediate state after physical death in which some of those ultimately destined for heaven must first "undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven," holding that "certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come." And that entrance into Heaven requires the "remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven," for which indulgences may be given which remove "either part or all of the temporal punishment due to sin," such as an "unhealthy attachment" to sin. Only those who die in the state of grace but have not yet fulfilled the temporal punishment due to their sin can be in purgatory, and therefore, no one in purgatory will remain forever in that state nor go to hell. The notion of purgatory is associated particularly with the Latin Church (in the Eastern Catho |