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death-like

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death-like (comparative more death-like, superlative most death-like)

  1. Alternative form of deathlike.
    • 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter I, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. [], volume I, London: [] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, [], →OCLC, pages 5–6:
      Not the faintest, or most distant sound, of any description whatsoever, reached their attentive listen; not even the reverberated echo of their footsteps struck their directed ear—a soft earth received their cautious tread, and all was a profound and death-like quiet.
    • 1808 November 12, “The Mysterious Recluse”, in The Lady’s Weekly Miscellany, volume VIII, number 3, New York, N.Y., page 34, column 2:
      “Theresa! (exclaimed the stranger) “is your name Theresa? asked she, a death-like paleness at the same time overspreading her countenance.
    • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Sense and Sensibility [], volume II, London: [] C[harles] Roworth, [], and published by T[homas] Egerton, [], →OCLC, pages 101–102:
      As this was a favourite meal with Mrs. Jennings, it lasted a considerable time, and they were just setting themselves, after it, round the common working table, when a letter was delivered to Marianne, which she eagerly caught from the servant, and, turning of a death-like paleness, instantly ran out of the room.
    • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XVIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, [], →OCLC, page 317:
      Some few disclosures, some secret conversations, broken by the hollow cough, by the death-like faintings, passed between them.
    • 1924, Victor Branford, Living Religions: A Plea for the Larger Modernism, page 47:
      Mother Earth, at their devastating touch, falls into a death-like swoon—her green mantle overlaid by a dust-coloured shroud.