0 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 --
They believe that while his remains are in unconsecrated ground he will remain in purgatory.
We see a world writhing, as it were, in a purgatory of its own making.
In certain pieces of government legislation such wishes have led us at least as far as purgatory.
I understand that the alternative penalties are £500 or two years in purgatory.
He was elected in 1945 to introduce a paradise and not a purgatory.
From the point of view of one lawyer at least, they are purgatory.
We are not going from paradise to purgatory.
Teaching teenagers in some schools must be difficult, and in some cases it must be purgatory.