About The Word Perdition
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Perdition
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What's The Definition Of Perdition?
[n] (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Perdition: Hell | infernal region | Inferno | nether region | the pit Related Terms | Find terms related to Perdition: Abaddon | abyss | avichi | bereavement | bloodbath | blue ruin | breakup | carnage | condemnation | consumption | cost | damage | damnation | dead loss | debit | decimation | denial | denudation | depredation | deprivation | desolation | despoilment | despoliation | destruction | detriment | devastation | disintegration | disorganization | dispossession | disruption | dissolution | divestment | doom | downfall | expense | forfeit | forfeiture | Gehenna | Hades | havoc | hecatomb | hell | holocaust | infernal regions | inferno | injury | jahannan | limbo | loser | losing | losing streak | loss | lower world | Naraka | nether world | netherworld | Pandemonium | pit | place of torment | privation | purgatory | ravage | robbery | ruin | ruination | sacrifice | shades below | shambles | Sheol | slaughter | spoliation | stripping | taking away | the abyss | the bottomless pit | the grave | the pit | Tophet | total loss | underworld | undoing | vandalism | waste | wrack | wrack and ruin | wreck See Also | Gehenna | hellfire | imaginary place | red region | Tartarus Perdition In Webster's Dictionary \Per*di"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. perditio, fr. perdere,
perditum, to ruin, to lose; per (cf. Skr. par[=a] away) +
-dere (only in comp.) to put; akin to Gr. ?, E. do. See
{Do}.]
1. 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.
The mere perdition of the Turkish fleet. --Shak.
If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdition.
--J. M. Mason.
2. Loss of diminution. [Obs.] --Shak.
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