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perdition (noun) -
1a: eternal damnation
b: hell
2a archaic : utter destruction
b obsolete : loss
Source : Merriam-Webster
Etymology : Not a word very suitable for the festive season, but them's the breaks. Perdition is a word that was borrowed into English in the 14th century from the Anglo-French noun perdiciun and ultimately comes from the Latin verb perdere, meaning “to destroy.” Among the earliest meanings of perdition was, appropriately, “utter destruction,” as when Shakespeare wrote of the “perdition of the Turkish fleet” in Othello. This sense, while itself not utterly destroyed, doesn’t see much use anymore; perdition is today used almost exclusively for eternal damnation or the place where such destruction of the soul occurs.
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