Undeadly vs Deathless - What's the difference?
undeadly | deathless |
Not subject to death; immortal.
*1846 , Miles Coverdale, Remains of Myles Coverdale :
*1852 , Alfred (King of England), The whole works of King Alfred the Great :
*1957 , Ray C. Petry, Late Medieval Mysticism :
*1979 , Frieda Elaine Penninger, William Caxton :
*2001 , Lynn Kurland, Stardust of Yesterday :
Unable to be killed, quenched, or terminated; eternal; everlasting.
*1993 , William Kaplan, Donald Malcolm McRae, Maxwell Cohen, Law, Policy and International Justice :
Of or pertaining to the undead.
Immortally; eternally.
*2009 , Colleen Gleason, As Shadows Fade :
*2009 , Dakota Cassidy, The Accidental Human :
Not deadly; not causing, producing, or resulting in death; harmless.
*1886 , Homer, Homer's Iliad :
*2002 , John Graves, Goodbye to a River: A Narrative :
*2004 , Troy Blacklaws, Karoo boy :
*2012 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day :
Undying or immortal.
* 2005 , Tony Magistrale, Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film
Of a work of art or literature: conspicuously excellent, of the highest order, guaranteed not to be lost or forgotten.
As adjectives the difference between undeadly and deathless
is that undeadly is not subject to death; immortal or undeadly can be not deadly; not causing, producing, or resulting in death; harmless while deathless is undying or immortal.As an adverb undeadly
is immortally; eternally.undeadly
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) undeedlii, vndeedly, undedlich, from (etyl) .Adjective
(-)- "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. [...]"
- He aye was and aye shall be, undeadly and everlasting.
- And also a soul in this state is dwelling between the terms of deadly life and undeadly life.
- 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, [...]
- 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.
- Much of his subsequent work related to processes for resolving what he once called "undeadly quarrels" in the international arena.
Derived terms
* undeadlinessAdverb
(en adverb)- [...] and it had been Sebastian's fault that her husband was no longer living undeadly by her side.
- 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
(-)- 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 [...]"
- [...] among boulders with my weapons deadly and undeadly .
- She does not care if it is a tobaccoroller or molesnake or any undeadly animal.
- [...] 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, [...]
deathless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- Her novels are filled with unforgettable characters and deathless prose.