Perdition
noun
A state in which someone suffers complete ruin or loss.
He drove his company into perdition because of his bad decisions.
Often appears as...
- driven to perdition
- road to perdition
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Formal
noun
A state of being punished forever, especially in hell after death.
He feared his sinful actions would lead him to perdition.
Often appears as...
- doomed to perdition
- path of perdition
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Formal
Religious
noun
A state in which someone suffers complete ruin or loss.
He drove his company into perdition because of his bad decisions.
Often appears as...
- driven to perdition
- road to perdition
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A state of being punished forever, especially in hell after death.
He feared his sinful actions would lead him to perdition.
Often appears as...
- doomed to perdition
- path of perdition
Usage tips
Formal
Religious
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Pro Tip 1/3Complete Ruin
Perdition often implies irrecoverable loss affecting one's entire life or entity.
The fraudulent activities led him to perdition, losing all personal and professional reputation.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Usage
Can be used metaphorically to describe something severely damaged, not always literally destroyed.
The public scandal left her reputation in perdition.
Pro Tip 3/3Dramatic Context
Perdition is often used to add a dramatic effect suggesting major failure or downfall.
This decision could plunge our finances into perdition.
Pro Tip 1/3Complete Ruin
Perdition often implies irrecoverable loss affecting one's entire life or entity.
The fraudulent activities led him to perdition, losing all personal and professional reputation.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Usage
Can be used metaphorically to describe something severely damaged, not always literally destroyed.
The public scandal left her reputation in perdition.
Pro Tip 3/3Dramatic Context
Perdition is often used to add a dramatic effect suggesting major failure or downfall.
This decision could plunge our finances into perdition.
Pro Tip 1/3Complete Ruin
Perdition often implies irrecoverable loss affecting one's entire life or entity.
The fraudulent activities led him to perdition, losing all personal and professional reputation.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Usage
Can be used metaphorically to describe something severely damaged, not always literally destroyed.
The public scandal left her reputation in perdition.
Pro Tip 3/3Dramatic Context
Perdition is often used to add a dramatic effect suggesting major failure or downfall.
This decision could plunge our finances into perdition.
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Quote examples
Adoniram Judson
American Clergyman
We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in heaven or burn forever in hell - we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain.
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George Muller
English Clergyman
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
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Elijah Parish Lovejoy
American Clergyman
Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
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Charles Spurgeon
British Clergyman
Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.
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Jakob Bohme
German Theologian
The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful quality, in the quality of fierceness and wrath, destruction or perdition.
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Eliza Farnham
American Activist
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
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Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.
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Cynthia Ozick
American Novelist
There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.
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Albert Einstein
German Physicist
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
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Adoniram Judson
American Clergyman
We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in heaven or burn forever in hell - we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain.
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George Muller
English Clergyman
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
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Elijah Parish Lovejoy
American Clergyman
Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
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Charles Spurgeon
British Clergyman
Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.
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Jakob Bohme
German Theologian
The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful quality, in the quality of fierceness and wrath, destruction or perdition.
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Eliza Farnham
American Activist
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
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Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.
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Cynthia Ozick
American Novelist
There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.
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Albert Einstein
German Physicist
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
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