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Purgatory vs Archive - What's the difference?

purgatory | archive |

As a noun purgatory

is (theology) in catholicism, the stage of the afterlife where souls suffer for their sins before they can enter heaven.

As an adjective purgatory

is tending to cleanse; expiatory.

As a verb archive is

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purgatory

English

(wikipedia purgatory)

Noun

  • (theology) In Catholicism, the stage of the afterlife where souls suffer for their sins before they can enter heaven
  • any situation causing suffering

    • Derived terms

    * purgatorial

    See also

    * heaven * hell * limbo

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to cleanse; expiatory.
    • (Burke)

    archive

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
  • The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
    • His archive of Old High German language texts is the most extensive in Britain.

    Derived terms

    () * archival * archivist * national archive

    Verb

    (archiv)
  • To put into an archive.
    • I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.