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life-in-death
A phantom state, a condition of being or seeming to be neither alive nor dead; something having the form or appearance of the supernatural, an apparition, a spectre. Also, = death-in-life s.v. death n. 2.
1817Coleridge Anc. Mar. in Sibylline Leaves 14 Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-Mair Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. 1901Daily Chron. 27 Dec. 3/1 They lie in a sort of life-in-death until the touch of a mighty hand grants them their full development. 1904Ibid. 22 Sept. 3/4 In a life-in-death existence she still languishes as an almost forgotten link with the past of forty years ago. 1925R. W. Ketton-Cremer in Oxf. Poetry 22 From something not of earth, nor quite of Death—Some phantom Life-in-Death. 1932W. B. Yeats Words for Music 1, I hail the Superhuman; I call it Death-in-Life and Life-in-Death. |