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perdition

noun
/pɜː(ɹ)ˈdɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from perdo
  2. derived from perditio
  3. derived from perdiciun
  4. inherited from perdicioun

Definitions

  1. Eternal damnation.

    • I son ov perdition / From sheer nothingness transgressed

  2. Hell.

  3. Absolute ruin

    Absolute ruin; downfall.

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

The neighborhood

Derived

perditionable, perditious

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for perdition. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA