0 in the Catholic religion, a very unpleasant place where you have to go and suffer before you go to heaven -- чистилище
1 a very unpleasant situation -- пытка, мучение
This diet is purgatory.
All twelfth- and thirteenth-century theologians discussing purgatory agreed on certain points.
I take line 149 to be a reference to the souls in purgatory who are helped by the alms of the living.
They go through purgatory, with social security staff asking them why they are claiming benefit.
The inference was that we must not complain if in these days the workers had to go through the same kind of purgatory.
There may be—one does not know—a moral purgatory for those who do not carry out their promises.
As it is, many of these represent two days of complete purgatory.
Prisons should be places for reform, not ruination; for deterrence, not degradation; for punishment, not purgatory.
Teaching teenagers in some schools must be difficult, and in some cases it must be purgatory.
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