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ˈdeath-wound
Forms: see death n.; formerly also β. dedes-, death's-.
A wound causing death, a mortal wound.
c1314Guy Warw. (A.) 3490 Smiteþ wiþ swerdes & speres..and ȝif hem deþ wounde. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xxvi. 562 He made him a grete wounde but no deed wounde. 1793Ld. Auckland Corr. (1862) III 122 Jacobinism is..more likely to receive its death-wound in the South of France than in Flanders. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Death-wound, a law term for the starting of a butt end, or springing a fatal leak. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 3 The dealer of the death-wound to the spirit of Pharisaism was a Pharisee.
β13..Cursor M. 7592 (Gött.) Mani fledd wid dedes wound [v.r. deþes wounde]. 1489Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliii. 290 There he caught deths wounde. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 465 Ane deidis wound in his heid. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 252 Death his deaths wound shall then receive. 1763Scrafton Indostan (1770) 43 Mustapha Caun..received his death's wound from an arrow. |