Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not subject to termination or death; immortal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not subject to death or destruction; immortal: as, deathless beings.
- Unceasing; unending; perpetual: as, deathless fame.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Undying orimmortal . - adjective Of a work of art or literature: conspicuously excellent, of the highest order, guaranteed not to be lost or forgotten.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective never dying
Etymologies
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Examples
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a fearful remodeling that removed every Victorian feature and left it clad in deathless yellow siding.
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-- Judy, with a sense of Romance called deathless; Tim, with a taste for
The Extra Day Algernon Blackwood 1910
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Let me find that which is changeless, which is deathless, which is without sorrow, which is unborn and undying, that is a true refuge.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Sharon Salzberg 2012
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"How can we give unless we have gold, treasures, a hoard such as deathless vikings can heap up?"
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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"How can we give unless we have gold, treasures, a hoard such as deathless vikings can heap up?"
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988
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I know my heart gave a great fiery leap as I saw them, for the faces that met me were fine, vigourous, and comely, while burning everywhere through their ripe maturity shone the ardours of youth and a kind of deathless enthusiasm.
Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897
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Least likely to: Be enjoyed by white zombies, or indeed any kind of deathless creature of the night.
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Either change the tense to present or drop perpetuity and use another word like "deathless"
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It was received by one below-the-line commenter with the deathless observation: Give it up Guardian.
Time for Sky's football stars to join the anti-Murdoch Justice League | Marina Hyde 2011
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For Poetry Friday, here's some of the deathless verse of Dr. Charles Jewett, as published in the Almanac of the American Temperance Union, for 1842, recently acquired by the Boston Athenaeum.
bilby commented on the word deathless
"you're a deathless soul
you can't be kept in a dark grave"
- translated by Nader Khalili, possibly from Hafiz.
December 9, 2007