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purgatorial

/pur-guh-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-/US // ˌpɜr gəˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr- //UK // (ˌpɜːɡəˈtɔːrɪəl) //

炼狱,炼狱式,炼狱式的,炼狱的

Related Words

purging清理,清洗,清理工作,清算expiatory赦免性,赎罪,赎罪性,赎罪性的laxative通便,通便剂,泻药,润肠通便lustral色素,色情的,色素的,色泽lustrative有光泽的,富有光泽的,富有光泽,有光泽physic物理学,物理,物理学家,物理学上purificatory净化的,净化性的,净化,净化剂aperient透明度,透明度高,透明度高的人,透明度高的aperitive敏感的,敏感度,敏感,敏感的人emetic催吐,催吐剂,催吐药,催吐术

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
    • : of, relating to, or like purgatory.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.purgative
Synonyms
purging清理,清洗,清理工作,清算aperient透明度,透明度高,透明度高的人,透明度高的aperitive敏感的,敏感度,敏感,敏感的人emetic催吐,催吐剂,催吐药,催吐术expiatory赦免性,赎罪,赎罪性,赎罪性的laxative通便,通便剂,泻药,润肠通便lustral色素,色情的,色素的,色泽lustrative有光泽的,富有光泽的,富有光泽,有光泽physic物理学,物理,物理学家,物理学上purificatory净化的,净化性的,净化,净化剂

Examples

  • If any one washes once in the lake, the sins of his forefathers are forgiven, and their souls are relieved from purgatorial fires.

  • All this vexation makes a cold and headache doubly intolerable, and I am in a most purgatorial state on this "good Sunday."

  • The speakers were a pair of old Purgatorial Twins, not without alleviations, designed by Nature to multiply.

  • The sallies of a Schopenhauer and a Nietzsche lack the purgatorial note which religious sadness gives forth.

  • Surely hell, the place of punishment and purgatorial expiation, is actually upon this earth in such cases.

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