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perdition

 

perdition ("per-DISH-en") noun.

origin: from Latin "perditus", meaning "to have lost"

1a. Loss of the soul; eternal damnation.

"If I see the Republicans doing something I think is bad for
this country, I have to say so. And I am not going to follow
them down a road that leads this nation to perdition."

--Alan Keyes on 'the Alan Keyes Show' (May 6, 1998)

1b. Hell.

"James Carville: I do hear that his [Ken Starr's] daughter's
boyfriend wears false eyelashes.
Paul Begala: Those are the least of the depravities
surrounding the man. Did you notice that
there are eight letters in 'Ken Starr,'
while, if 'Starr' were spelled normally,
there would be only seven?
Robert Bennett: So what?
Paul Begala: (quoting) "And the beast that was, and is not,
even he is the eighth, and is of the seven,
and goeth into perdition." (Rev.17:11)

--Gene Callahan and Stu Morgenstern, "A Fallen Starr"
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