Both Uses of
perdition
in
Bleak House
- When this young heathen now among us—who is now, my friends, asleep, the seal of indifference and perdition being set upon his eyelids; but do not wake him, for it is right that I should have to wrestle, and to combat and to struggle, and to conquer, for his sake—when this young hardened heathen told us a story of a cock, and of a bull, and of a lady, and of a sovereign, was THAT the Terewth?†
Chpt 25-27
- And in the hopeful meantime, Tom goes to perdition head foremost in his old determined spirit.†
Chpt 46-48 *
Definition:
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(perdition) hell; (in Christianity: where Satan resides and non-saved suffer eternal punishment)