perdition
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English perdicioun, from Old French perdiciun, from Late Latin perditio, from Latin perdo (“I destroy, I lose”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
perdition (countable and uncountable, plural perditions)
- Eternal damnation.
- 2009, Behemoth, Ov Fire and the Void:
- I son ov perdition / From sheer nothingness transgressed
- Hell.
- Absolute ruin; downfall.
- Their decision to buy stocks just before the crisis led to their perdition.
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Translations[edit]
eternal damnation
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hell
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absolute ruin
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French perdiciun, borrowed from Late Latin perditiōnem, from Latin perdō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
perdition f (plural perditions)
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Further reading[edit]
- “perdition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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