purgatory

Preposition: of

• suicide: When in prison Cooper wrote some tales and The Purgatory of Suicides, a political epic in ten books, written in Spenserian stanzas.

Converse of object

• become: However, without the police anarchy would reign and the lives of the defenseless would become purgatory.
• avoid: Saint Molaise lived on Holy Island and died there in 639 after accepting 30 diseases at once to avoid purgatory.
• accept: We had accepted this purgatory as a child accepts the conditions of the world.

Adjective modifier

• sheer: Two and a half hours of sheer purgatory ( and about as hot ).
• meteorological: The weather is raw and boisterous in winter, shifty and ungenial in summer, and a downright meteorological purgatory in the spring.
• absolute: The last few miles were absolute purgatory despite the enthusiasm of the crowds on the Embankment.
• social: Andy died, Liza got fat, and the rest of us were condemned to a shabby and joyless social purgatory.

Modifies a noun

• prayer: PURGATORY PRAYER FOR THE DEAD The consolations of purgatory.

Noun used with modifier

• touching: PURGATORY Souls departed: being a defense and declaration of the Catholic Church's doctrine touching purgatory and prayers for the dead.
• doctrine: PURGATORY Souls departed: being a defense and declaration of the Catholic Church's doctrine touching purgatory and prayers for the dead.