perdition

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The only way to avoid following that road to perdition is to surrender to the One who came to save us from it.

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  1. noun Loss of the soul; eternal damnation.
  2. noun Hell: "Him the Almighty Power/Hurl'd headlong . . . /To bottomless perdition, there to dwell” (John Milton).
  3. noun Archaic Utter ruin.

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  • The only way to avoid following that road to perdition is to surrender to the One who came to save us from it. —  Into the Fire
  • She believes that without her he would go straight to perdition, and from a sense of duty she tolerates him, not daring to shirk her responsibility for the old reprobate's soul. —  Essays on Scandinavian Literature
  • The spectator is a well fed, indifferent personage who laughs at the play and goes home to supper--perdition upon him and his kind! —  Don Orsino
  • It is from that very class of theorizers who deny that the heathen are in danger of eternal perdition, and who represent the whole missionary enterprise as a work of supererogation, that we receive the most extravagant accounts of the natural powers and gifts of man. —  Sermons to the Natural Man
  • Utter yourself against some meanness or hypocrisy in all the blasphemies that ever smoked up from perdition, and I will go on to denounce the same meanness and hypocrisy with a hundred-fold more stress and vehemency in words across which no slime has ever trailed, and through which no infernal fires have shot their forked tongues,--words pure, innocent, all-impressive, God-honored, Anglo-Saxon,--in which Milton sang, and Bunyan dreamed, and Shakespeare wrote But whatever be the source of this habit, it is on the increase. —  The Abominations of Modern Society
 

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  1. Middle English perdicion, from Old French, from Late Latin perditiō, perditiōn-, from Latin perditus, past participle of perdere, to lose : per-, per- + dare, to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English perdicioun, from Old French perdition, perdicion, French perdition =Spanish perdicion = Portuguese perdição = Italian perdizione, from Late Latin perditio(n-), ruin, destruction, from Latin perdere, past participle perditus, make away with, destroy, waste, ruin, lose, from per, through, + dare, give: see date
 

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