First Known Use: 14th century
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perdition
noun per·di·tion \pər-ˈdi-shən\
: the state of being in hell forever as punishment after death
Full Definition of PERDITION
1
a archaic : utter destruction b obsolete : loss
2
a : eternal damnation b : hell
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Origin of PERDITION
Related to PERDITION
- Synonyms
- Gehenna, Pandemonium, hell, Tophet
- Antonyms
- bliss, elysian fields, Elysium, empyrean, heaven, kingdom come, New Jerusalem, paradise, sky, Zion (also Sion)
Other Christian Religious Terms
Rhymes with PERDITION
addition, admission, ambition, attrition, audition, beautician, clinician, cognition, coition, commission, condition, contrition, demission, dentition, dismission, Domitian, edition, emission, ethician, fruition, ignition, Kittitian, lenition, logician, magician, Mauritian, monition, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, omission, optician, partition, patrician, permission, petition, Phoenician, physician, Politian, position, punition, remission, rendition, sedition, submission, suspicion, tactician, technician, tradition, transition, transmission, tuition, volition
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