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perdition Definition

per·di·tion (pər dis̸h′ən)

noun

  1. Archaic complete and irreparable loss; ruin
  2. Theol.
    1. the loss of the soul; damnation
    2. hell

Etymology: ME perdicioun < OFr perdiciun < LL(Ec) perditio < L perditus, pp. of perdere, to lose, ruin < per-, per- + dare, to give: see date

perdition Synonyms

perdition

n.

condemnation, destruction, doom, hell; see blame 1, damnation.

perdition Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • man: In 2 Peter 3:7 it is called the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

Adjective modifier

  • everlasting: Let no thought of the morrow enter your mind, else you will incur everlasting perdition.
perdition Quotes

   To begin with, I was born with an unreasonably large stock of relations, who have increased and multiplied ever since. My aunts and uncles were legion, and my cousins as the sands of the sea without number. Consequently, even a low death-rate meant, in the course of mere natural decay, a tolerably steady supply of funerals for a by no means affectionate but exceedingly clannish family to go to. Add to this that the town we lived in, being divided in religious opinion, buried its dead in two great cemeteries, each of which was held by the opposite faction to be the ante- chamber of perdition, and by its own patrons to be the gate of paradise.

—Shaw, George Bernard

[a character in Mr Puff's play within a play,'The Spanish Armanda'] Perdition catch my soul but I do love thee. : Haven't I heard that line before? : No, I fancy not.öWhere pray? :Yes, I think there is something like it in Othello. : Gad! now you put me in mind on't, I believe there isöbut that's of no consequence; all that can be said is, that two people happened to hit upon the same thoughtöand Shakespeare made use of it first, that's all.

—Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'a"  me. Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

—Rabelais, Fran c° ois

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: thosethatthougavest me Ihave kept, and noneof them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from th'ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire.

—Milton,John