单词 | never-dying |
释义 | never-dyingadj. Chiefly literary. Undying; immortal. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [adjective] > immortal undeadlyc950 undeathlyOE immortalc1374 undyinga1400 ever-living1514 unmortal1538 never-dying1567 tombless1594 deathless1595 transmortal1932 1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 59 Wish that..she be guerdond for hir life With neuer dying fame. a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. A5 Now Guise begins those deepe ingendred thoughts, To burst abroad those neuer dying flames. 1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore iii. sig. F3 v Many thousand..sorts Of neuer dying deaths. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Mark ix. 49) Those bad humours in us that breed the never-dying worm. 1689 A. Behn Hist. of Nun 77 He made Ten thousand Asseverations of his never-dying Passion. 1728 R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 66 From never-dying Corinth it first arose. 1781 W. Cowper Charity 593 That sight imparts a never-dying flame. 1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 747 Say, shall he not, upon the rolls of fame, Preserve a hero's never-dying name? 1873 E. J. Brennan Witch of Nemi 22 Wedded to a never-dying strife. 1918 L. Binyon New World 38 Riven across, She [sc. Ypres] rose, dead, into never-dying fame. 1998 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 28 Jan. If you believe that these lives which are taken away are human beings with never dying souls, there is no comparison. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1567 |
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