deathless

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She would willingly give me her daughter, for did she not know how deep, how lasting, how deathless was my affection?

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  1. adjective Not subject to termination or death; immortal: deathless renown.

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  • The Spirit is deathless as God is deathless, and in that deathlessness of the Spirit lies the certainty, the immortality of religion. —  London Lectures of 1907
  • "We send out our deathless archers--deathless because they are lifeless, existing only in the imaginations of our enemies. —  Thuvia, Maid of Mars
  • "You call them deathless, and yet I saw their dead bodies piled high upon the battlefield. —  Thuvia, Maid of Mars
  • Lily, love is the only chrism that sanctifies marriage, and though at present you might consent to become Mr. Lindsay's wife, suppose that in after years you should chance to meet some other man, perhaps not so holy, so purely Christian as this noble young missionary, but a man who seized, possessed your deep--deathless womanly love, and who you knew loved you in return? —  Infelice
  • The conviction that the past was deathless, and her bright girlhood immortal, took all the melancholy out of retrospection. —  Miss Ludington's Sister
 

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