deperdition
deperdition noun: synonym of loss or destruction.
Noun
deperdition (countable and uncountable, plural deperditions)
- Synonym of loss or destruction.
- For the activity of the agent, being not able to overmaſter the reſiſtance of the patient, there will enſue no deperdition.1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 163
- After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a...1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28
- Synonyms:
- loss or destruction
Synonyms of deperdition
- loss or destruction
Forms of deperdition
| plural | deperditions |
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Origin of deperdition
From Middle French deperdition (French déperdition).
Questions about deperdition
- What does deperdition mean?
- Deperdition means synonym of loss or destruction.
- What part of speech is deperdition?
- Deperdition is a noun.
- What is the plural of deperdition?
- The plural of deperdition is deperditions.
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