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n. (plural of purgatory English)
Usage examples of "purgatories".
She's the heroine who ventures alone and unafraid into the Hells and the Underworlds and the Purgatories and the Limbos (yea, even unto Tartarus) to search out the Draconian psychoses and to withstand the fiery breath of their non-sense and pierce their many-colored coats of steely armor with her golden sword of understanding and her lance of explanation.
Damn Shi Zilin to ten thousand flaming purgatories for his incursion into that place!
It was, all things considered, not the worst of purgatories - the flat where they'd been installed was bigger and boasted more amenities than the one they'd had in married officers' quarters back in Belfast.
It was, all things considered, not the worst of purgatories — the flat where they'd been installed was bigger and boasted more amenities than the one they'd had in married officers' quarters back in Belfast.
Their prescriptions often consisted of purgatories, enemas and/or bleeding their patients, to "purge" the patient of the bad unbalanced humors.