PERDITION in a Sentence

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1. Praying for salvation, young Steven Daedalus feared he was damned to eternal perdition.
2. But I rather judge it the kinder feelings of nature, which grieves that so goodly a form should be a vessel of perdition.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERDITION
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perdition
 n.  entire ruin; utter destruction, especially, utter loss of soul, or of final happiness in future
Classic Sentence:
1  Before him is a dead sea that stretches in azure calm before the eye; but he who unwarily ventures within its embrace finds himself struggling with a monster that would drag him down to perdition.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
2  Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and perdition.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
3  But I rather judge it the kinder feelings of nature, which grieves that so goodly a form should be a vessel of perdition.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  Praying for salvation, young Steven Daedalus feared he was damned to eternal perdition.