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21 Christianity and/or Biblical vocabulary words
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perdition
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► definition
Definition:1. Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul2. diminution. [obsolete]
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while his lovely young wife tends her zinnias in the mild morning light and his fine young son comes fondly mishandling that perpetually lost sheep of a cat, Soapy, once more back from perdition for the time being, to what would have been general rejoicing.
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.93 (2004)
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Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy th' arithmetic of memory
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About them the hardly less ferocious men shouted, cursed and struck, encouraged the animals with sibilant utterances and threatened with awful forms of death and perdition all who tried to put an end to the combat.
Ambrose Bierce. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
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‘Have mercy on your own soul!’ I said, endeavouring to snatch the glass from his hand.
‘Not I! On the contrary, I shall have great pleasure in sending it to perdition to punish its Maker,’ exclaimed the blasphemer.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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