undeadliness

Examples of undeadliness in a sentence

• 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.1880, Richard Robert Madden, “Farewell lines to an old friend”, in The Memoirs (chiefly autobiographical) from 1798 to 1886 of Richard...
• 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.1929 [p. 1350, a.1396], Dorothy, transl. Jones, Minor works of Walter Hilton, translation of original by Walter Hilton:
• He that dwelleth between the terms hath near-hand forsaken deadliness, but not fully, and hath near-hand gotten undeadliness, but not fully.1957 [p. 1154, a. 1162], Ray C., transl. Petry, “Capitulum VII”, in Late Medieval Mysticism, translation of Benjamin by Richard of Saint...
• 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.2007 [p. 1350, a. 1400], Evelyn, transl. Underhill, The Cloud of Unknowing, translation of The Cloude of Unknowyng:

Synonyms of undeadliness

• deathlessness

Origin of undeadliness

Calque of Middle English undedlynesse (or, in some cases, a continuation rather than a calque), from Old English undēadlīcnes (“immortality”); equivalent to undeadly + -ness; compare German Unsterblichkeit, a similarly formed compound.

Questions about undeadliness

What does undeadliness mean?

Undeadliness means the condition of not being susceptible to death; immortality.

How do you use undeadliness in a sentence?

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.

What part of speech is undeadliness?

Undeadliness is a noun.