perdition
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- noun
- /pərˈdɪʃən/
- Literature
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perdición
- Believing in redemption is vital to avoiding a fate of perdition.
- road to perdition
But we're we're on the road to perdition if we don't end this.
- But we're we're on the road to perdition if we don't end this.
Examples
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Faith is the only thing that stands between us and perdition.
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The preacher warned that a life of sin would lead to perdition after death.
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That she might not be cast into perdition.
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This path will lead you to perdition.
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On the road to perdition.
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Darkness swallowed it, and Anna was left with the feeling she was surely on the road to perdition.
Fiction book (2001) -
If you would save your souls from perdition... ...repent now and confess your sins.
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For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me, the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.
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In the story, the hero fights against the forces of perdition to save his soul.
Synonyms
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A religious idea of a place after death where people who do wrong suffer forever
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A place of punishment and suffering after death in Christian belief
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Being punished forever after death for sins
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A place of burning where people suffer forever after death
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Punishment that never ends in Hell for doing something wrong
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A place of punishment after death for very bad people in Christian belief
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A place of suffering for the dead in religious stories
A place of fire and suffering where bad people are punished after death
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Perdition comes from the Latin perdere and the prefix per- meaning 'completely', and it originally meant 'ruin' or 'loss', 'to destroy' or 'to lose'. So perdition now means being completely ruined or lost, and in Christian belief it is 'hell'.