perdition

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

• IPA^(key): /pɜː(ɹ)ˈdɪ.ʃən/
• Hyphenation: per‧di‧tion
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

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perdition (countable and uncountable, plural perditions)

1. Eternal damnation.
   • 2009, Behemoth, Ov Fire and the Void:

     I son ov perdition / From sheer nothingness transgressed

2. Hell.
3. Absolute ruin; downfall.

   Their decision to buy stocks just before the crisis led to their perdition.

• abyss
• Hades
• inferno
• netherworld
• underworld
• hell

• salvation

• direption, tropidine

Inherited from Old French perdiciun, borrowed from Late Latin perditiōnem, from Latin perdō.

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.di.sjɔ̃/

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perdition f (plural perditions)

1. perdition

• perdre

• “perdition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.