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I believe in a righteous God and I know that sooner or later you will find death--death at the hands of your own people--an honourable death which is far beyond your deserts.

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  1. noun The act of dying; termination of life.
  2. noun The state of being dead.
  3. noun The cause of dying: Drugs were the death of him.
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  • The result of the war would have been in no way different had he lived, but his death was an incalculable loss to the Confederacy. —  American Men of Action
  • Lorenzo had been a just man, and his death was the death of the righteous. —  The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others
  • Half the beauty of the revenge would have been lost, you see, had Miss Paynter-Tree continued to believe that the death was accidental. —  Laurels are Poison - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 14: 1942
  • The cause of his death was his having exposed himself rashly to the sun in a tiger-hunt, in August, 1846; he never recovered from the fever which was the immediate consequence. —  Sir Walter Scott
  • On the other hand, two other people closely connected with Émile Gallet and possibly having an interest in his death were at Sancerre at that time, and they had no good alibi to prove that they had not been in Nettle Lane: they were Henri Gallet and Éléonore. —  Maigret Stonewalled—Georges Simenon - 03
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English deeth, from Old English dēath; see dheu-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also deth (dial. also dead, deid, etc.), from Middle English deth, deeth, often ded, dede, from Anglo-Saxon deáth = OFries. dāth, dād = Old Saxon dōth, dōd = Dutch dood = Middle Low German dode = Low German dod = Old High German tōd, tōt, Middle High German tōt, German tod = Icelandic daudhr = Swedish Danish död = Goth, dauthus, death; from the strong verb represented by Gothic (Moesogothic) *diwan (preterit *dau), die, seen also in Gothic (Moesogothic) dauths, etc., English dead, with suffix -th (orig. -thu, L. -tu-s), formative of nouns: see dead and die.
 

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