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undeadliness | undeadly | Derived terms |

Undeadliness is a derived term of undeadly.


As a noun undeadliness

is the condition of not being susceptible to death; immortality.

As an adjective undeadly is

not subject to death; immortal or undeadly can be not deadly; not causing, producing, or resulting in death; harmless.

As an adverb undeadly is

immortally; eternally.

undeadliness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The condition of not being susceptible to death; immortality.
  • * 1852 , A Modern English Version of King Alfred's Blossom-Gatherings from Saint Augustine'', in ''The whole works of King Alfred the Great , volume 2, page 83:
    • Although the holy fathers, who were before us, very certainly knew about that which thou formerly askedst; that is, about the undeadliness of men's souls, which was very clear in this that they naught doubted, [...]
  • * 1875 , Emily Sarah Holt, The White Rose of Langley: a story of the court of England in the olden time , page 2:
    • "If a man might die, and have done with it all! But to meet God! And 'tis no sweven,1 ne fallacy, this dread undeadliness 2 — it is real."
    1. Dream 2. Immortality.
  • * 1880 , Richard Robert Madden, Farewell lines to an old friend'', in ''The Memoirs (chiefly autobiographical) from 1798 to 1886 of Richard Robert Madden (1891), page 152:
    • to find the same \ Old traits of time’s undeadliness and fame \ In Dante’s visions, and in Shakespeare’s lore, \ And Chaucer’s quaint and graphic strains of yore.
  • * 1929 , a work by Walter Hilton (), translated into English by Dorothy Jones in Minor works of Walter Hilton :
    • So is the righteous man white in cleanness of soul, and therefore shall he have a white stole of undeadliness in the high Lebanon that is the bliss of heaven.
  • * 1957 , Richard of Saint Victor, Benjamin'' (), Capitulum VII, translated into English Ray C. Petry in ''Late Medieval Mysticism , page 106:
    • He that dwelleth between the terms hath near-hand forsaken deadliness, but not fully, and hath near-hand gotten undeadliness , but not fully.
  • * 2007 , The Cloude of Unknowyng'' (), translated into English by Evelyn Underhill in ''The Cloud of Unknowing :
    • To this will I answer thee, that He had been dead, and was clad with undeadliness , and so shall we be at the Day of Doom.
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    undeadly

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) undeedlii, vndeedly, undedlich, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not subject to death; immortal.
  • *1846 , Miles Coverdale, Remains of Myles Coverdale :
    • "The soul also hath her death, namely, when it lacketh and is destitute of the eternal and godly life, which truly and justly is called the life of the soul: but undeadly or immortal is it called, because it never ceaseth to live, how miserable soever the life of it be. [...]"
  • *1852 , Alfred (King of England), The whole works of King Alfred the Great :
    • He aye was and aye shall be, undeadly and everlasting.
  • *1957 , Ray C. Petry, Late Medieval Mysticism :
    • And also a soul in this state is dwelling between the terms of deadly life and undeadly life.
  • *1979 , Frieda Elaine Penninger, William Caxton :
    • But I believe that the undeadly gods have spread and sown the souls within the bodies of mankind to the intent that the men should see and inhabit the countries, [...]
  • *2001 , Lynn Kurland, Stardust of Yesterday :
    • Tempting as it was to hang up on the man and be done with it, that wouldn't do. Who knew what sort of undeadly minions de Piaget was capable of commanding.
  • Unable to be killed, quenched, or terminated; eternal; everlasting.
  • *1993 , William Kaplan, Donald Malcolm McRae, Maxwell Cohen, Law, Policy and International Justice :
    • Much of his subsequent work related to processes for resolving what he once called "undeadly quarrels" in the international arena.
  • Of or pertaining to the undead.
    • Derived terms
    * undeadliness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Immortally; eternally.
  • *2009 , Colleen Gleason, As Shadows Fade :
    • [...] and it had been Sebastian's fault that her husband was no longer living undeadly by her side.
  • *2009 , Dakota Cassidy, The Accidental Human :
    • Today, almost eight months since they'd met, and sharing her house for four of those months now, Wanda was more in love with Heath than she ever thought was humanly, er, undeadly possible.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not deadly; not causing, producing, or resulting in death; harmless.
  • *1886 , Homer, Homer's Iliad :
    • Ulysses, knowing well The wound undeadly (setting back his foot to form his stand) Thus spake to Socus: "O thou wretch, thy death is in this hand, That stay'st my victory on Troy, and where thy charge was made In doubtful term [...]"
  • *2002 , John Graves, Goodbye to a River: A Narrative :
    • [...] among boulders with my weapons deadly and undeadly .
  • *2004 , Troy Blacklaws, Karoo boy :
    • She does not care if it is a tobaccoroller or molesnake or any undeadly animal.
  • *2012 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day :
    • [...] each surrounded by a luminous contour, and hang an instant in space, as time slowed and each permutation of shapes appeared, to begin their gentle, undeadly descent, [...]
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