Definition of "purgatorial" []

• Serving to purify of sin; expiatory. (adjective)
• Of, relating to, or resembling purgatory. (adjective)

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• "There is no reference to anything in the nature of what Roman Catholics call purgatorial fires."
• "These characters wander through a world strewn with trash and wreckage, and many of them present themselves to Franz as suicides, suggesting that he's in some kind of purgatorial limbo for lost souls both the gangster boss Pums and Franz's discarded girlfriend Fränze tell him that they've committed suicide."
• "Now Lucifer (Ray Wise, who played Laura Palmer's killer dad on "Twin Peaks") is here to collect, and he wants Sam to take on a second job as a kind of purgatorial bounty hunter: Sam's task is to hunt down escapees from hell."