MEANING
A state of spiritual ruin or eternal punishment, especially in hell.
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Religious warnings, inherited moral rhetoric, imagined spiritual catastrophe.Give a warning an elevated, doctrinal force rather than simple disapproval.
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- eternal perdition
- road to perdition
- consigned to perdition
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Her uncle described every pleasure as a road to perdition.
The sermon offered no hope to those it consigned to perdition.
He copied the word perdition into his notebook without knowing whether he believed it.
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Primary category: gothic. Formal or literary religious term; road to perdition can figuratively mean a disastrous moral course. Uncountable.
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