deathless
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈdɛθləs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]deathless (comparative more deathless, superlative most deathless)
- Undying or immortal.
- 2005, Tony Magistrale, Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film:
- Like the deathless vampire who must repeat its stalk-and-kill cycle in order to satisfy a recurring blood hunger, the earliest film horrors cannibalized its literary ancestry again and again.
- 2010 October 11, Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar, “It Came from the Nightosphere” (3:15 from the start), in Adventure Time[1], season 2, episode 1, spoken by Marceline the Vampire Queen (Olivia Olson):
- “Hey, how do I kill this guy anyway?” “Finn, you can't kill my Dad!” “Oh, I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean --” “No, you literally can't kill my Dad. He's deathless.” “Oh.”
- (of a work of art, literature, etc.) Guaranteed not to be lost or forgotten due to its importance or conspicuous excellence.
- Her novels are filled with unforgettable characters and deathless prose.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "We cannot do less than call it Ixodes Maloni. The very small inconvenience of being bitten, my young friend, cannot, I am sure, weigh with you as against the glorious privilege of having your name inscribed in the deathless roll of zoology."
- 2000, Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 516:
- Finally, one voice in England proclaimed him a deathless dramatist and portrayer of character (Morgann) (<422).
Derived terms
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[edit]immortal
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work of art or literature
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