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perdition - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Noun

perdition (countable and uncountable, plural perditions)

  • Eternal damnation.
    • ✤ Antonym: salvation
    • ✤ I son ov perdition/From sheer nothingness transgressed1
  • Hell.
    • ✤ Synonyms: Hades, inferno, netherworld, underworld, abyss
  • Absolute ruin; downfall.
    • ✤ Synonyms: ruin, doom, destruction
    • ✤ Antonym: redemption
    • ✤ Their decision to buy stocks just before the crisis led to their perdition.

Etymology

From Middle English perdicioun, from Old French perdiciun, from Late Latin perditio, from Latin perdo (“to destroy, to lose”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /pɜː(ɹ)ˈdɪ.ʃən/
  • Hyphenation: per‧di‧tion
  • Rhymes: -ɪʃən
  • Audio (US): 🔊

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Footnotes

  1. 2009, “Ov Fire and the Void”, in Evangelion, performed by Behemoth: ↩

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