Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An appearance of death or as of death; the state of being suggestive of or associated with death.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Appearance of death.
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- noun An
appearance suggestive ofdeath .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mom can sort by cheapest on up to show her, and if she doesn't want to buy me Saffy's Angel -- which she should because it's good -- then she can buy me something with nice cheerful deathfulness in it.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway gaaldine 2009
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Of the degradation and deathfulness to the art-intellect of the country involved in such a habit, I have more or less been led to speak before now; but I have not hitherto marked its definite tendency to increase the price of _work_, as such.
A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market) John Ruskin 1859
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"Swine-raven," indicating at once brutality and deathfulness; hence the line --
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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