Both Uses
purgatory
in
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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- I spent the months following my grandfather's death cycling through a purgatory of beige waiting rooms and anonymous offices, analyzed and interviewed, talked about just out of earshot, nodding when spoken to, repeating myself, the object of a thousand pitying glances and knitted brows.†
p. 39.1 *
- If being a hollow is a living hell—and it most certainly is—then being a wight is akin to purgatory.†
p. 260.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(purgatory) a place or state of temporary suffering while waiting
or in Roman Catholic theology: the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited suffering to pay for their sins - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)