Definitions for perdition

perdition per·di·tion

Spelling: [per-dish-uh n]
IPA: /pərˈdɪʃ ən/

Perdition is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 461 anagrams from letters in perdition (deiinoprt).

Definitions for perdition

noun

  1. a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
  2. the future state of the wicked.
  3. hell (def 1).
  4. utter destruction or ruin.
  5. Obsolete. loss.

Origin of perdition

1300-50; Latin perditiōn- (stem of perditiō) destruction, equivalent to perdit(us) (past participle of perdere to do in, ruin, lose, equivalent to per- per- + di-, com

Examples for perdition

No devil had ever tempted a man with such a bribe of perdition.

He would tell me to go to perdition, probably, and I shouldn't blame him.

I will not ask a favor of man, to save my soul from perdition.

To forsake it is to "forsake their own mercy," to "turn back into perdition."

In his view it was the surest means of getting to perdition.

Since she went I know what perdition means; what darkness is.

If was the world against Kate, let the world go to perdition.

He resisted, as though I had been forcing him over the brink of perdition.

He has led me to perdition—men lost, boat lost, credit lost.

perdition to the land where a man could not live unless he was a skunk or a cur.

Word Value for perdition
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