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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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Etymology of 'Perdition'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Church, a paper equally devoted to episcopacy and monarchy. Here is a specimen bit of controversy. The Church, arguing against responsible government, declares that as God is the only ruler of princes, princes cannot be accountable to the people; and perdition is the lot of all rebels, agitators of sedition, demagogues, who work under the pretence of reforming the State. All the troubles of the country are due to parliaments constantly demanding more power and thereby endangering the supremacy of the mother country. The Banner is astonished by the unblushing ...

— George Brown • John Lewis

... would be loth to part from me for his own sake as well as mine but I know not whether he will be able to prevail; and I entreat of you, reverend sir, to add your persuasions, for I well know that it would be my perdition to remain bound ...

— A Reputed Changeling • Charlotte M. Yonge

... chap, don't think me quite a fool. You can't know what that little girl has done for me these years. Her trust in me—it is extraordinary how utterly she trusts me—somehow held me up to my best and back from perdition. It is the one bright spot in my life in this blessed country. Everyone else thinks me a pleasant ...

— The Sky Pilot • Ralph Connor

... extent in favour of her content. Refusal of her forgiveness under certain circumstances—though this does not exclude the confident hope of God's mercy—can only mean that in Novatian's view this forgiveness is the foundation of salvation and does not merely avert the certainty of perdition. To the Novatians, then, membership of the Church is not the sine qua non of salvation, but it really secures it in some measure. In certain cases nevertheless the Church may not anticipate the judgment of God. Now it is never by exclusion, but by readmission, that she does ...

— History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack

... secular;[16] the very reverse of Bunyan's training. His associates would enable him to draw the awful character and conduct of Badman, as a terrible example to deter others from the downward road to misery and perdition. ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

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