deathlinessn.

Brit.

/ˈdɛθlɪnᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈdɛθlinᵻs/

Forms: see deathly adj. and -ness suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: deathly adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < deathly adj. + -ness suffix.

†1. The quality of being subject to death; mortality. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun] > liability to

ashc950

deathlinessOE

deadliness?c1225

mortalityc1400

mortalness1530

dyingness1700

sparrow-fall1946

OE Blickling Homilies 17 Þonne se mona wanað, þonne tacnað he ure deaþlicnesse, & þisse worlde wanunge.

OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. iii. 264 Oþ þæt wuldor þære æriste ealles mancynnes forswelgeð þas deaðlicnesse þæs lichaman.

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 173 We beoren in ure bodie iesu cristes deaðlicnesse [?c1225 Cleo. deadlichnesse, c1230 Corpus Cambr. deadlicnesse, a1400 Pepys deþ liknesse; L. mortificationem]. þet hit sutelie in us hwuch was his lif on eorðe.

2. The quality of having the appearance of death, or of evoking or being associated with death; deathly gloominess, paleness, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun] > appearance of

deathfulnessa1617

lifelessness1625

deathiness1801

deathliness1824

1824 J. Porter Duke Christian of Luneburg II. xx. 370 Even the room in which she sat seemed like a body when the soul has fled—a horrid vacuity—a sort of deathliness sitting on every object.

1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning III. 293 The utter, total, Deathliness-in-Life of Simon.

1862 H. B. Stowe Agnes of Sorrento xviii. 215 The utter deathliness of the scene.

1929 S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic xii. 158 In the lamplight he noticed her deathliness of hue, the whitishness of lead-poisoning.

1963 J. Moynahan Deed of Life (1966) Concl. 226 A searing epiphany of the underlying deathliness of a great civilization.

2006 New Statesman (Nexis) 16 Jan. As a child I hated butchers' shops: the stink of blood soaking into sawdust,..the sheer deathliness of it all.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	deathliness
释义	deathlinessn. Brit. /ˈdɛθlɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈdɛθlinᵻs/ Forms: see deathly adj. and -ness suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: deathly adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < deathly adj. + -ness suffix. †1. The quality of being subject to death; mortality. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > liability to ashc950 deathlinessOE deadliness?c1225 mortalityc1400 mortalness1530 dyingness1700 sparrow-fall1946 OE Blickling Homilies 17 Þonne se mona wanað, þonne tacnað he ure deaþlicnesse, & þisse worlde wanunge. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. iii. 264 Oþ þæt wuldor þære æriste ealles mancynnes forswelgeð þas deaðlicnesse þæs lichaman. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 173 We beoren in ure bodie iesu cristes deaðlicnesse [?c1225 Cleo. deadlichnesse, c1230 Corpus Cambr. deadlicnesse, a1400 Pepys deþ liknesse; L. mortificationem]. þet hit sutelie in us hwuch was his lif on eorðe. 2. The quality of having the appearance of death, or of evoking or being associated with death; deathly gloominess, paleness, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > appearance of deathfulnessa1617 lifelessness1625 deathiness1801 deathliness1824 1824 J. Porter Duke Christian of Luneburg II. xx. 370 Even the room in which she sat seemed like a body when the soul has fled—a horrid vacuity—a sort of deathliness sitting on every object. 1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning III. 293 The utter, total, Deathliness-in-Life of Simon. 1862 H. B. Stowe Agnes of Sorrento xviii. 215 The utter deathliness of the scene. 1929 S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic xii. 158 In the lamplight he noticed her deathliness of hue, the whitishness of lead-poisoning. 1963 J. Moynahan Deed of Life (1966) Concl. 226 A searing epiphany of the underlying deathliness of a great civilization. 2006 New Statesman (Nexis) 16 Jan. As a child I hated butchers' shops: the stink of blood soaking into sawdust,..the sheer deathliness of it all. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.OE
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