PERDITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perdition mean? 

• PERDITION (noun)
  The noun PERDITION has 1 sense:

1. (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment

  Familiarity information: PERDITION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERDITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Hell; infernal region; Inferno; nether region; perdition; pit

Context example:

Hell is paved with good intentions

Hypernyms ("perdition" is a kind of...):

fictitious place; imaginary place; mythical place (a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings)

Domain category:

Christian religion; Christianity (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perdition"):

Gehenna; Tartarus (a place where the wicked are punished after death)

hellfire; red region (a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned)

 Context examples 

I cannot give you up to perdition as a vessel of wrath: repent—resolve, while there is yet time.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and perdition.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In the meantime, sir, said Mr. Chillip, they are much disliked; and as they are very free in consigning everybody who dislikes them to perdition, we really have a good deal of perdition going on in our neighbourhood!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A contrite heart and ten nobles to holy mother Church may stave off perdition; but he hath a pardon of the first degree, with a twenty-five livre benison, so that I doubt if he will so much as feel a twinge of purgatory.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)