Purgatory is valid Scrabble Word

Is purgatory a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for PURGATORY in dictionary:

NOUN:

a place or state in which souls are after death purified from venial sins
(in Catholic doctrine) a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven
mental anguish or suffering
place or state of temporary suffering
A state or place of purification after death; according to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have been forgiven. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are believed to be received into heaven.
a temporary condition of torment or suffering
(theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins

ADJECTIVE:

having the quality of cleansing or purifying
Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory.

Words related to PURGATORY

Words that contain PURGATORY

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How to use PURGATORY in a sentence

This compartment was a species of Purgatory, and a few evil spirits were wandering about among the souls and endeavouring to fill them with anxiety and alarm.
All were under the shadow of Calvinism and of the Roman Catholic purgatory, and death was dreadful.
Far off, from the red purgatory between the walls, sounds the savage thrum-thrum of a negro orgy, here all is peace and perfume.
It was so difficult to see what kind of effect this dismal purgatory was meant to have on any human soul.
That of the Souls in Purgatory, in the same cathedral.
He and his family had saved what was to them a large sum, to be spent in offerings, for the safe passage of his deceased relatives through purgatory.
Carved out of the mountain in the first circle of a terrace of Purgatory are scenes illustrative of humility.
But it is to Virgil, his ideal author, the guide whom he has chosen for his journey through Hell and Purgatory, that he offers his most touching tribute of gratitude.
It is a way which leads through Hell and Purgatory.
Purification begins only after the soul passes into Purgatory proper.

His rapid advance from Outer Purgatory to Purgatory was due to the merit of a self-humiliating act performed in favor of a friend.
His term in Purgatory therefore has lasted a little more than eleven centuries.
Bonaventure, who teach that fire is the cleansing element of all Purgatory.
The hope of seeing her carried him through the horrors of Hell and the penance of Purgatory.
To a man of good heart, each day must bring purgatory which he knows not how to bear, yet to which he fears to become insensible.
It was claimed that the pain of purgatory differed from the pain of hell in nothing except that it was not to last forever.
It would confirm the idea of heaven and of a temporary penal state which corresponds to purgatory rather than to hell.
After mass was said for the miser thirty days, the deceased monk appeared to a brother of his order and told him that he had been in purgatory till that day.
Thus, he who reaches the highest step secures an indulgence of two hundred and fifty-two years, whether he remains here, or finds himself in purgatory.
A leap in the dark is a fearful risk, and will be far more likely to land you in a domestic purgatory than anywhere else.
Two streets away, and in a room more squalid than her own, Vardri was also enduring his own private Purgatory.
But when her friends and neighbors began to ask questions, she felt herself gradually descending into a region which, for all she knew, might resemble purgatory.
Man makes for himself his own purgatory and heaven, and these are not planes, but states of consciousness.
She looked another way, disconcerted, and wondered how long this purgatory was to last.
Added to this, the cold wind drove in continually through the broken pane, and made the place a real purgatory to us.
Vast sums were annually expended for no other purpose than to put their afflicted prisoner through the torture of a living purgatory.

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