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Synonyms for perdition

Grammar : Noun
Spell : per-dish-uh n
Phonetic Transcription : pərˈdɪʃ ən

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Définition of perdition

Origin :
  • mid-14c., "fact of being lost or destroyed," from Old French perdicion "loss, calamity, perdition" of souls (11c.) and directly from Late Latin perditionem (nominative perditio) "ruin, destruction," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin perdere "do away with, destroy; lose, throw away, squander," from per- "through" (here perhaps with intensive or completive force, "to destruction") + dare "to put" (see date (n.1)). Special theological sense of "condition of damnation, spiritual ruin, state of souls in Hell" (late 14c.) has gradually extinguished the general use of the word.
  • noun hell
Example sentences :
  • He would tell me to go to perdition, probably, and I shouldn't blame him.
  • Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Perdition to the land where a man could not live unless he was a skunk or a cur.
  • Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
  • If was the world against Kate, let the world go to perdition.
  • Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
  • Since she went I know what perdition means; what darkness is.
  • Extract from : « An Outcast of the Islands » by Joseph Conrad
  • He resisted, as though I had been forcing him over the brink of perdition.
  • Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
  • No devil had ever tempted a man with such a bribe of perdition.
  • Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
  • In his view it was the surest means of getting to perdition.
  • Extract from : « 'Charge It' » by Irving Bacheller
  • To forsake it is to "forsake their own mercy," to "turn back into perdition."
  • Extract from : « Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews » by Handley C.G. Moule
  • He has led me to perdition—men lost, boat lost, credit lost.
  • Extract from : « Red Cap Tales » by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
  • I will not ask a favor of man, to save my soul from perdition.
  • Extract from : « Ernest Linwood » by Caroline Lee Hentz

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