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perdition
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  • But God nevertheless decided that certain people should be saved from perdition.  (source)
  • I'd smother Bob for you and send Lorie to perdition.  (source)
  • 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.  (source)
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  • Fermina Daza shared with her schoolmates the singular idea that the Arcade of the Scribes was a place of perdition that was forbidden, of course, to decent young ladies.  (source)
    perdition = hell
  • Then I considered the fact that they both simply might be crazy, or outcast like Paolo and Francesca, caught up in some weird, shared perdition.  (source)
  • I cannot give you up to perdition as a vessel of wrath: repent — resolve, while there is yet time.  (source)
  • Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!  (source)
  • Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and perdition.  (source)
  • It gave Joseph satisfaction, apparently, to watch him go the worst lengths: he allowed that the lad was ruined: that his soul was abandoned to perdition; but then he reflected that Heathcliff must answer for it.  (source)
  • Below them, black horrid figures struggled through the flames of perdition while the Black Man sat on a huge flame-colored throne with a trident in one hand.†  (source)
  • He would have to bury his daughter in unholy ground, and without the saving grace of the mass her soul was doomed to perdition.†  (source)
  • We made no promises to storm barricades; We shall go down to perdition openly.†  (source)
  • DRUMMOND Then how in perdition do you have the gall to whoop up this holy war against something you don't knov anything about?†  (source)
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They have bereft; and do pronounce, by me Lingering perdition,—worse than any death  (source)
perdition = suffering
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