pernicion

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noun

destruction; perdition

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Meanings

nounpernicion (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountabledestruction; perdition

    Synods are whelps o'th'Inquisition, A mungrel breed of like pernicion.

    1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC

Origin

See pernicious.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

ponericin
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APA

pernicion. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pernicion

MLA

“pernicion.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pernicion. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pernicion,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pernicion.

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