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unˈliving, ppl. a.
[un-1 10. Cf. OE. unlifiᵹende and unlibbende, OHG. unlëbende, MDu. onlevende, MSw. olivande.]
Not living or alive; lifeless.
1561tr. Calvin's 4 Serm. Idol. i. B ij b, An vnliuing creature. 1594Southwell M. Magd. Funeral T. 68 Her heart [seemed but] the cophin of an vnliuing soule. 1611Florio, Inuiuente, vnliuing. 1741in Richardson Pamela I. p. xxxvii, Sweet Pamela!.. Thou dear, unliving, yet immortal, Shade! 1809Campbell Gert. Wyom. ii. ii, Past those settlers' haunts the eye might roam, Where earth's unliving silence all would seem. 1855M. Arnold Balder Dead iii. 299 Entreat All living and unliving things to weep For Balder.
Hence unˈlivingness.
1914D. H. Lawrence Prussian Officer 80 The sick man lay as if dead... Miss Louisa was heavy-hearted under the load of unlivingness. 1928[see rubber-necked s.v. rubber n.1 13 c]. |