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# perdition

«perdition» in Mova's school dictionary: **everlasting punishment after death, often meaning hell…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (perdition, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (church, old) Perdition is everlasting punishment after death, often meaning hell, in old Christian language. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perdition/#m1)

2) (old, formal) Complete ruin or disaster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perdition/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In old Bible translations, hymns and classic stories: «the road to perdition». Today it sounds old-fashioned or dramatic. It tells the reader about a terrible fate.

### examples

- The preacher warned against the road to perdition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perdition/#x1)
- In the old story, the pirate feared eternal perdition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perdition/#x2)
- Old hymns sometimes speak of perdition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perdition/#x3)
- Gambling led him to perdition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perdition/#x4)
- Christians believe Jesus came to save people from perdition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perdition/#x5)
- The book calls greed the path to perdition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perdition/#x6)

### note

Old-fashioned, uncountable. Similar: damnation, hell, ruin. Not used in everyday speech.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «perdition» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perdition/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.