perdition
灭亡,灭顶之灾,亡国,毁灭
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Definitions
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- : a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
- : the future state of the wicked.
- : hell.
- : utter destruction or ruin.
- : Obsolete. loss.
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Examples
If “any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth and in hell,” it is the “Company of Loyola.”
Fear that somehow, despite her freedom, she will have to repeat what seemed like endless perdition.
I have no merit; I were justly sent to perdition for my sins; I lie here, perhaps dying.
But then an infinite number of others are destined to perdition, and receive not the grace necessary to eternal salvation.
At that time some of it was Mexican, and more of it was Chinese, and some of it wasn't connected with anything but perdition.
Till that instant the idea of a temptation of the evil one, of the possibility of perdition, had never entered my head.
You sent me to Australia to do a certain thing, and you would have flung me to perdition if I had stuck at anything to do it.