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purgatory
noun
pur·ga·to·ry ˈpər-gə-ˌtȯr-ē 
plural purgatories
Did you know?
Purgatory is the place where the soul is cleansed of all impurities, as Dante described in his great poem The Divine Comedy. Today purgatory can refer to any place or situation in which suffering and misery are felt to be sharp but temporary. Waiting to hear the results of a test, or whether you got a good job, can be a purgatory. And an endless after-dinner speech can make an entire roomful of people feel as if they're in purgatory.
Example Sentences
the purgatory of drug abuse The marathons were jokingly referred to as one-day purgatories.
Recent Examples on the Web It has been rumored to activate earthquakes, and to hold human souls in a sort of northern purgatory. 
Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2022 The aforementioned purgatory isn’t just being caught in the middle, it’s being caught in the middle with suddenly empty pockets, limiting flexibility for future moves. Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022 The Patriots, meanwhile, got the right guy on their first try, with just one season of QB purgatory after Brady left. Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022 But being stuck in a tiny hotel room for most of a year has verged on purgatory. Emma Batha, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2022 For the time being, Scheherazade and other Øino creations under detention across Europe have entered a strange legal purgatory. Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022 Bill only went as far away as his own pundit purgatory, a podcast at BillOreilly.com, to continue his bloviations. Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2022 Those gold coins spread over the South American seabed remind me of all of those bitcoins that have gone to crypto-heaven, or perhaps crypto-purgatory, because the relevant private keys have been lost. David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 12 June 2022 For so long, Stafford had been sentenced to suffer in football purgatory, a place where time keeps passing and the losses keep piling up. Jared Diamond, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022 See More
Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2022 The aforementioned purgatory isn’t just being caught in the middle, it’s being caught in the middle with suddenly empty pockets, limiting flexibility for future moves. Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022 The Patriots, meanwhile, got the right guy on their first try, with just one season of QB purgatory after Brady left. Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022 But being stuck in a tiny hotel room for most of a year has verged on purgatory. Emma Batha, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2022 For the time being, Scheherazade and other Øino creations under detention across Europe have entered a strange legal purgatory. Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022 Bill only went as far away as his own pundit purgatory, a podcast at BillOreilly.com, to continue his bloviations. Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2022 Those gold coins spread over the South American seabed remind me of all of those bitcoins that have gone to crypto-heaven, or perhaps crypto-purgatory, because the relevant private keys have been lost. David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 12 June 2022 For so long, Stafford had been sentenced to suffer in football purgatory, a place where time keeps passing and the losses keep piling up. Jared Diamond, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-French or Medieval Latin; Anglo-French purgatorie, from Medieval Latin purgatorium, from Late Latin, neuter of purgatorius purging, from Latin purgare
First Known Use
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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