perdition

per·di·tion

noun \pər-ˈdi-shən\

Definition of PERDITION

1

a archaic : utter destruction

b obsolete : loss

2

a : eternal damnation

b : hell

Examples of PERDITION

1. sinners condemned to eternal perdition
2. <simple stupidity is not enough to doom one to perdition>

Origin of PERDITION

Middle English perdicion, from Anglo-French perdiciun, Late Latin perdition-, perditio, from Latin perdere to destroy, from per- through + dare to give — more at per-, date

First Known Use: 14th century

Related to PERDITION

Synonyms

Gehenna, Pandemonium, hell, Tophet

Antonyms

bliss, elysian fields, Elysium, empyrean, heaven, kingdom come, New Jerusalem, paradise, sky, Zion (also Sion)

Related Words

blazes, inferno; purgatory; hades, netherworld, shades, Tartarus, underworld; Sheol; abyss, pit; fire and brimstone, hellfire

Near Antonyms

glory, happy hunting ground, nirvana, promised land, Valhalla

Other Christian Religious Terms

Pentateuch, blasphemy, curate, doxology, eremite, iconoclasm, liturgy, orison, pneuma, reliquary

Rhymes with PERDITION

addition, admission, ambition, attrition, audition, beautician, clinician, cognition, coition, commission, condition, contrition, demission, dentition, dismission, Domitian, edition, emission, ethician, fruition, ignition, Kittitian, lenition, logician, magician, Mauritian, monition, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, omission, optician, partition, patrician, permission, petition, Phoenician, physician, Politian, position, punition, remission, rendition, sedition, submission, suspicion, tactician, technician, tradition, transition, transmission, tuition, volition