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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perdition \Per*di"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. perditio, fr. perdere, perditum, to ruin, to lose; per (cf. Skr. par[=a] away) + -dere (only in comp.) to put; akin to Gr. ?, E. do. See Do.]
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Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death.
The mere perdition of the Turkish fleet.
--Shak.If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdition.
--J. M. Mason. Loss of diminution. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "fact of being lost or destroyed," from Old French perdicion "loss, calamity, perdition" of souls (11c.) and directly from Late Latin perditionem (nominative perditio) "ruin, destruction," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin perdere "do away with, destroy; lose, throw away, squander," from per- "through" (here perhaps with intensive or completive force, "to destruction") + dare "to put" (see date (n.1)). Special theological sense of "condition of damnation, spiritual ruin, state of souls in Hell" (late 14c.) has gradually extinguished the general use of the word.
Wiktionary
n. 1 eternal damnation. 2 hell. 3 absolute ruin.
WordNet
n. (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit" [syn: Hell, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, the pit] [ant: Heaven]
Wikipedia
Perdition may refer to:
- Hell in Christian beliefs
- Son of perdition
- Perdition (play), by Jim Allen
- Road to Perdition (comics), a series of fictional works by Max Allan Collins
- Road to Perdition, a film based on the graphic novel of the same name
- Road to Perdition (soundtrack), music from the film of the same name
- Perdition City, by Norwegian band Ulver
- The Perdition EP, by Norwegian band Enslavement of Beauty
- " Perdition", from the album In Consequence by Greek progressive rock band Phase
- " Ghost of Perdition", from the album Ghost Reveries by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth
- " Throes of Perdition", from the album Shogun by American band Trivium
- "Postcards from Perdition", bonus track from (some editions of) the album Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep by American progressive band Spock's Beard
- The Axis of Perdition, a British group
Perdition is a 1987 stage play by Jim Allen.
It deals with a libel action in Israel a few years after the Second World War, which looks into alleged collaboration during the war between the leadership of the Zionist movement in Hungary and the Nazis.
Its starting point of research comes from the trial of Rudolf Kastner, a leading member of the Budapest Aid and rescue committee whose job it was to help Jews escape from the clutches of the Nazis in Hungary. His libel trial in Israel was about an accusation that he had collaborated with Adolf Eichmann, one of the main SS officers in charge of carrying out the Holocaust. Though the initial trial found that he had indeed "sold his soul to the devil" by saving certain Jews whilst failing to warn others that their "resettlement" was in fact deportation to the gas chambers, there was a subsequent Israeli supreme court trial a few years later at which the findings were overturned. The question that the play asks through the device of another libel trial (that of the fictional Dr Yaron and set some 10 years later in London), is whether the saving of certain Jews was an act of collaboration in line with Zionist philosophies about populating Israel at the expense of those Jews who remained. It became controversial when its first production, directed by Ken Loach for the Royal Court Theatre in London, was cancelled in January 1987 only 36 hours before the first performance.
Over a decade later, the actor Tam Dean Burn was involved in organising readings. It was performed at the Gate Theatre in London in 1999. Perfidy, by Ben Hecht, also covered the Kastner trial, from which the title of the play was drawn.
Usage examples of "perdition".
Under the pretence of holding a Parliament, you can cite all the damned into the burning Evildom, and then bid the devils hurl them headlong to bottomless perdition, and lock them up in its vortex, to trouble you no more.
Lyeth spun around, wishing them and their fellows to perdition, and stormed through the hall, her talma billowing behind her.
Of course, a few seditious sons of perdition smuggled unscramblers in from Wild Country.
Polytheism conducts its deluded votaries, through the paths of error, to the abyss of eternal perdition.
After all, Sam himself had been sixteen when the Beatles and Rolling Stones were coming on the scene, and his parents had railed against that music and predicted it would lead Sam and his entire generation into perdition.
The old kings had died away, but the Fletchers and the Vaughans,--of whom she had been one,--and the Whartons remained, a peculiar people in an age that was then surrendering itself to quick perdition, and with peculiar duties.
The shrieks of the ghosts from the mists of Glenco Ring in his ears through the caves of perdition!
And whenever I questioned Rochez on the subject, he flew into a temper and consigned all middle-aged Jewesses to perdition, and all the lovely and young ones to a comfortable kind of Hades to which he alone amongst the male sex would have access.
Some were in favor of consigning you and your vessel to perdition, but Prophet Beasley thought you might be worthy of the kingdom of God.
Him the Almighty Power Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie With hideous ruine and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms.
Nevertheless, that a male dissembler who by deluging her with untenable fictions charms the female wisely, may acquire powers reaching to the extremity of perdition, is a truth taught to many by unsought and wringing occurrences.
The bodies of the Aurelianos were no sooner cold in their graves than Aureliano Segundo had the house lighted up again, filled with drunkards playing the accordion and dousing themselves in champagne, as if dogs and not Christians had died, and as if that madhouse which had cost her so many headaches and so many candy animals was destined to become a trash heap of perdition.
Bambridge, who wanted to know what Horrock would do with blasted stuff only fit for haberdashers given over to that state of perdition which the horse-dealer so cordially recognized in the majority of earthly existences.
They claimed that since Tomahawk was furnishin’ one-half of the attraction, and Gunstock the other half, the razee ought to be throwed at Perdition.
The Gunstock braves turned frothing on the Tomahawk warriors, and the men from Perdition, yelping with glee, pulled their guns and begun fanning the crowd indiscriminately, which give back their fire.