perdition

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If so, which people are allowed in and which are banished to perdition, if not sentenced to be annihilated?

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2023

This perdition has only grown more baroque and hellish during the post-COVID travel rebound, which has created dehumanizing rental car shortages and skyrocketing prices across the country.

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2023

The final showdown involves a high-stakes game of curling and a fiery portal to perdition.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2022

It’s Torquemada, he’s been told, Who’s here to damn him to perdition.

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2022

I was condemned to eternal perdition if I was going to be able to call my own sister ‘Miss Tansy.’

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck