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noun

Perdition n.

Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin. "The mere perdition of the Turkish fleet."

(religion) Damnation; the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death. "If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdition."

Loss or diminution. (Obs.)

Hell; hades; as, on the path to perdition.

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"Perdition" Quotes from Famous Books

... the words, 'Oh holy father, intercede for us with the wolves which are devouring our substance!' he replied: 'Ha! Are you, or are you not, Orthodox Christians? See that I assign you not to condign perdition!' Yes, angry, in very truth he was. Nay, he even spat in the people's faces. Yet in reality he was a kindly old man, for his eyes kept ...

— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky

... either a general council or a good Pope who would correct abuses and then all would go well. That God would allow so noble and Christian a realm as England to break away from Christendom and run the risk of perdition ...

— History of the English People - Volume 4 (of 8) • John Richard Green

... sects in the reign of Elizabeth, countenanced by that most flagitious courtier and tyrannical governor, the Earl of Leicester, accused Hooker, the great bulwark of the Protestant cause, of leaning towards popery, because he refused to consign the souls of our ancestors to perdition; and a most uncharitable outcry was raised against a Bishop for the same bias, because he trusted that the grandmother of our good King would experience the mercies of our Saviour, on whose merits, in her last moments, she declared she relied.—Thus did these ill-advised persons, by a breach ...

— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West

... Spain had heroes. While Romance could charm, The World gave ground before her bright array; And therefore have his volumes done such harm, That all their glory, as a composition, Was dearly purchased by his land's perdition. ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron

... whether the inner motive of our life is the will to sacrifice or the will to be rich. "They that desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition," ...

— Our Lady Saint Mary • J. G. H. Barry

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