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deathless, a.|ˈdɛθlɪs|
[see -less.]
1. Not subject to death; immortal.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. Eden 741 Should (like our death-less Soule) have never dy'd. 1648Boyle Seraph. Love iii. (1700) 19 Though Angels and humane Souls be Deathless. 1790Cowper Odyssey iv. 582 The deathless tenants of the skies. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 425 The faith that animals have immaterial and deathless souls.
2. fig. Of things.
1646Crashaw Sospet. d'Her. iii, The dew of life, whose deathless springs Nor Syrian flame, nor Borean frost deflow'rs. 1667Milton P.L. x. 775 Deathless pain. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. vi. 408 The deathless name of Godwine.
Hence ˈdeathlessly adv., ˈdeathlessness.
1682H. More Annot. Glanvill's Lux O. 94 The deathlessness of the Soul. 1865G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming xvi. (1889) 119 Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are. 1850Mrs. Browning Vis. Poets cxi, His brown bees hummed deathlessly.
Add:[2.] b. Freq. as deathless prose (iron.).
1966in Random House Dict. 1978Washington Post 5 June a20/1 What reporter has not dreamed at some point in his career of being able to sue his editors for distorting his deathless prose on the copy desk? 1981Q. Crisp How to become Virgin v. 62, I had imagined that my jumbled speech would be translated into deathless prose. |