deperditionn.
/diːpəˈdɪʃən/ Now rare.
Loss, waste, destruction by wasting away.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > loss of material
wastinga1425
waste1497
consumptiona1513
deperdition1607
absumption1617
wastage1756
deperition1793
1607 Bp. J. King Serm. Nov. 31 Wherin was prodition, perdition, deperdition, al congested and heaped vp in on.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xxx. 59 The old [flesh] by continuall deperdition..evaporating still out of us.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. v. 86 It may be unjust to deny all efficacie of gold, in the non-omission of weight, or deperdition of any ponderous particles. View more context for this quotation
1795 tr. L. S. Mercier Fragm. Politics & Hist. II. 63 At its horrid deperdition every citizen is alarmed.
1881 Annihilation 6 Alas! who will henceforth be afraid of sin, if it only..end in painless deperdition?
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