pernicion
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See pernicious.
Noun
[edit]pernicion (uncountable)
- (obsolete) destruction; perdition
- 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:
- Synods are whelps o'th'Inquisition,
A mungrel breed of like pernicion.
References
[edit]“pernicion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.