Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Loss of the soul; eternal damnation.
- noun Hell.
- noun Utter ruin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Entire ruin; utter destruction.
- noun The condition of the lost; the future state of the wicked; hell.
- noun Loss or diminution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death.
- noun obsolete Loss of diminution.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Eternal damnation . - noun
Hell . - noun
Absolute ruin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The bottomless pit of perdition is going to be SRO.
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Good intentions when I first had the babies but we all know what the road to perdition is paved with.
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"I wish that it, and all its men and women, were in perdition!" returned De Valence, in a fierce tone.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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As "drawing back unto perdition" is merely the palpable evidence of the want of "root" from the first in the Christian profession (Lu 8: 13), so "enduring to the end" is just the proper evidence of its reality and solidity.
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Even if we were permitted to converse with the lost in perdition,
The Value of the Soul. E. S. Taylor 1865
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What are all the comforts of the home of Dives, if they end in perdition?
Three Discourses 1865
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All the blame of Israel's ruin laid upon themselves: O Israel! thy perdition is thence; it is of and from thyself; or, It has destroyed thee, O Israel! that is, all that sin and folly of thine which thou art before charged with.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Godliness with contentment is great gain/those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare/into foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in perdition.
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In twilight, in perdition's lean and inauspicious loam).
Second April 1921
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Of the meaning of death in the future, or what is known as perdition, we have no call here to speak.
Christian Doctrine of Sin 1823-1886 1876
sonofgroucho commented on the word perdition
The road to here is paved with good intentions.
May 20, 2007
marco_nj commented on the word perdition
As in "awaiting perdition"
March 31, 2008
aequoria commented on the word perdition
Archaic, utter ruin.
December 7, 2008
WanderlustDreamer commented on the word perdition
Word is used in Chapter IX of "Topper" by Thorne Smith.
March 21, 2015
shanvrolijk commented on the word perdition
"Humans are therefore faced with an invidious choice once they learn about Roko’s Basilisk: they can help to build the superintelligence, or face painful and unending perdition at the hands of a future, ultra-rational AI."
Source: The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why?
January 22, 2018