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hell; (in Christianity: where Satan resides and non-saved suffer eternal punishment)

Paul envisaged the whole of mankind, both Jew and Gentile, as being in this fatal state of perdition and as needing a common savior, who is Jesus.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas -- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv1-50 (retrieved 05/20/06)

He presents Jesus as a preexistent divine being, whom God sent into the world in human form to rescue mankind from their state of spiritual perdition.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas -- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv1-50 (retrieved 05/20/06)
We made no promises to storm barricades; We shall go down to perdition openly.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
I find my follies are irretrievable; and all your goodness cannot save me from perdition.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
I cannot give you up to perdition as a vessel of wrath: repent — resolve, while there is yet time.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
Was there not a spirit in him which, silent as it was, burned on him like the fires of perdition?
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
[turning on Barbara] you talk of your half-saved ruffian in West Ham: you accuse me of dragging his soul back to perdition.
George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara
Then he added with sharp annoyance, "Perdition catch that crazy pauper!
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
But I rather judge it the kinder feelings of nature, which grieves that so goodly a form should be a vessel of perdition.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
Four years after, you find me a Christian enthusiast; you then work upon me, perhaps to my complete perdition!
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
"I'd smother Bob for you and send Lorie to perdition.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
Was he concocting a final plan of death for her and of perdition for himself?
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Then Sir Percivale perceived it was a fiend, the which would have brought him unto his perdition.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur
As for Captain Roberts—he might have wanted to save Cox's soul from the Fires of Perdition, but he hated the man himself and didn't mind showing it.
Terry Pratchett -- Nation
I felt myself surrounded by so many fiends from perdition.
Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Stand here, make a good show on't; this shall end without the perdition of souls.
William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
And in the hopeful meantime, Tom goes to perdition head foremost in his old determined spirit.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
Upon what he deemed the unblushing treachery of the Bellegardes Newman wasted little thought; he consigned it, once for all, to eternal perdition.
Henry James -- The American
DRUMMOND Then how in perdition do you have the gall to whoop up this holy war against something you don't knov anything about?
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
MEPHISTOPHELES Yes, one of weight, with many sighs: Three hundred masses buy, to save him from perdition!
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust

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