deathlessadj.

1547 W. Baldwin Treat. Morall Phylos. ii. v. sig. K.ii The iust, Who after this lyfe, through deathe transitory, For deathles lyfe ioyned with ioye, do trust.

1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 68 Wel it may be call'd A deathlesse tincture, sent vs from the skies Whose colour stands, whose glosse is ne'er appall'd.

1646 R. Crashaw Sospetto d'Herode iii, in Steps to Temple 52 The deaw of Life, whose deathlesse spring, Nor Sirian flame, nor Borean frost deflowers.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 775 Deathless pain. View more context for this quotation

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 794 To Agamemnon's name A Cenotaph I raise of deathless fame.

a1800 W. Cowper tr. J. M. B. de la M. Guyon Poems (1801) 11 Love, pure and holy, is a deathless fire.

1844 H. D. Burdon Forester's Daughter I. ix. 207 Philip's enmity is deathless—cold, calculating, and firm.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lvi. 413 The deathless Summer of the Sacramento Valley.

a1938 T. Wolfe Web & Rock (1939) ix. 160 The deathless misery of his own youth, which lived for him again in all its anguish even after fifty years had passed.

2003 T. Magistrale Hollywood's Stephen King iv. 98 The deathless winter that rages on outside.

1595 R. S. tr. Amorous Contention Phillis & Flora in G. Chapman Ouids Banquet of Sence sig. H4^v Deathles were hee could there repose; Each path his spicie Odor stroes Of Mirrh, and Synamon there groes, And of our blessed Ladyes Rose.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 296 Should (like our death-lesse soule) haue neuer died.

1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God iii. 20 Though Angels and humane Souls be deathless.

1677 J. Dryden State Innocence iii. i. 15 Thus shall we live in perfect bliss, and see, Deathless our selves, our num'rous progeny.

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 38 Men might plead Prescription from the Grave; Deathless, from Repetition of Reprieve.

1785 T. Dwight Conquest of Canäan v. 113 Wing'd with light, the deathless man shall rise.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. iv. 582 The deathless tenants of the skies.

1833 Sailor's Mag. July 331/1 His deathless soul I hope will be with the Lord.

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 425 The faith that animals have immaterial and deathless souls.

1923 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 121/3 It is your God-Mind. It is timeless, and changeless, and deathless.

1971 I. Murdoch Accidental Man 93 You remember in the Iliad when..Zeus deplores the sight of deathless beings involved in the pointless horrors of morality?

2005 Yoga Jrnl. Jan. 80/1 Ramana Maharshi..spontaneously awakened to his identity as the deathless, eternal Self.

1630 T. May Contin. Lucan ii. sig. C5 Those renowned Graecian writers..Whose deathlesse Poems in the skies aboue Haue fix'd so many paramours of Joue.

1667 T. Flatman in S. Woodford Paraphr. Psalms David sig. d3^v These did his deathless Poems slay.

1720 E. Cobden Poem on Death of Addison 10 A Power Divine Had issu'd from some deathless Poet's Shrine.

1731 I. Thompson Coll. Poems 78 To future Times shall she thy Fame prolong, In deathless Verse, if Deathless be my Song.

1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad Introd. p. clviii Wide o'er the world shall ever sound the might, The raptured music of each deathless line.

1817 W. Pitt Topogr. Hist. Staffs. i. 86 A Warrior, who had fought and conquered on the deathless plains of Waterloo.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 449 From an early stage of the reign of Cnut we see a high and special place among the great men of the realm filled by the deathless name of Godwine the son of Wulfnoth.

1886 Sporting Times 24 Apr. 2/1 The splendid story which Sir Walter Scott has told in his deathless prose.

1917 Crisis Jan. 125/1 It was here in Richmond that Patrick Henry delivered his deathless speech.

1942 Billboard 18 Apr. 45/3 As this deathless prose is being put onto copy paper, thence by plane to..the roaring presses, [etc.].

1981 ‘Q. Crisp’ How to become Virgin v. 62 I had imagined that my jumbled speech would be translated into deathless prose.

2002 Los Angeles Mag. Aug. 38/2 Mae West, author of the deathless phrase ‘I used to be Snow White, but I drifted’.

1828 H. Derozio Fakeer of Jungheera 194 That starry crown is on thy bust... It will not fall, like man to dust But like the sun glow deathlessly.

1850 E. B. Browning Vision of Poets cxi His brown bees hummed deathlessly.

1899 Philistine Apr. 137 If he had not allowed his compass to go off ten points.., [Hawley Smith] would have written as deathlessly [as Jean Jacques Rousseau].

1922 New Republic 23 Aug. 367/1 The mysterious stranger from America, deathlessly faithful to Mary and sponsor for all the ideal values of love.

2012 L.A. Weekly (Nexis) 17 May Will we ever tire of noir? Unlikely—the genre's organic expression of its time and place..makes the films deathlessly fascinating and vitally true.

1682 H. More Annot. Lux Orientalis 94 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. The deathlessness of the Soul.

1825 Freethinking Christian's Q. Reg. 2 303 The fall of man from an original state of purity and deathlessness, (if we may be allowed to coin a word for the occasion).

1845 Metropolitan Mag. Mar. 391 Whatever appeals to universal sympathy must be a thing that endureth for ever: this is the secret of a poet's deathlessness.

1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming I. xvi. 271 Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

1919 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 19/1 As for tradition,..they are not concerned with illustrations of its continuity and deathlessness.

2001 C. Whitehead John Henry Days ii. 107 If you dare enter the tunnel you will hear his hammer singing in the darkness. This is the deathlessness of the human spirit.