单词 | deathiness |
释义 | deathinessn. = deathliness n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > appearance of deathfulnessa1617 lifelessness1625 deathiness1801 deathliness1824 1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. v. 299 It burns clear, but with the air around Its dead ingredients mingle deathiness. 1843 S. Coleridge in Mem. (1873) I. 275 The recumbent figure..looks deathy with too real and actual a deathiness. 1881 Newcastle Courant 25 Mar. 6/2 Mohareb cut off the murderer's hand, parched it nine weeks, and then lit it, till it filled the air with ‘deathiness’. 1957 Kenyon Rev. 19 64 The elderly Catholic ladies in The Living Room, whose psychic deathiness, rooted in a miserable fear of dying, gives the play's title its hideous irony. 1973 J. Mills October Men iii. 49 I have captured the violence, the hysteria, the straight deathiness of such events. 2007 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 18 July 3 Voldemort... The ‘mort’ has some deathiness to it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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