Definition of "perdition" [per•di•tion]

• Loss of the soul; eternal damnation. (noun)
• Hell: "Him the Almighty Power/Hurl'd headlong . . . /To bottomless perdition, there to dwell” ( John Milton). (noun)
• Archaic Utter ruin. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The bottomless pit of perdition is going to be SRO."
• "Good intentions when I first had the babies but we all know what the road to perdition is paved with."
• ""I wish that it, and all its men and women, were in perdition!" returned De Valence, in a fierce tone."