Meaning of PERDITION
| Pronunciation: | | pur'dishun
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| | Definition: | | [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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | Hell, infernal region, Inferno, nether region, the pit |
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| | Antonyms: | | Heaven | | |
| | See Also: | | Gehenna, hellfire, imaginary place, red region, Tartarus | |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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