deathless
not subject to death; immortal: the belief that the human soul is deathless.
unceasing; perpetual: his deathless devotion to the cause.
likely to endure because of superior quality, timelessness, etc. (sometimes used ironically): deathless prose.
Origin of deathless
1Other words from deathless
- death·less·ly, adverb
- death·less·ness, noun
Words Nearby deathless
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How to use deathless in a sentence
Brian Kelly’s very good Notre Dame would sit on a second tier, above most but decisively below the few, their great 20th century still howling at them in a sport of deathless pasts.
Alabama advances to the national title game with an artful offensive performance | Chuck Culpepper, Des Bieler | January 2, 2021 | Washington PostFinally the epithet of "deathless" gets some explanation, stemming from Golovan's fearless ministrations during a plague.
The Forgotten Russian: The Genius of Nikolai Leskov | Benjamin Lytal | April 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe deathless man character had been creeping around in other things I had written, so he came next.
For one deathless moment his genius had carried him to the heights, and a white blaze of publicity had given him a halo of glory.
The Man from Time | Frank Belknap LongThe genius of Berini, Guido, and the Caracci, has glorified his memory in deathless painting and in animated bust.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry Withrow
Horace has given to his teacher, Orbilius, a deathless fame by the adjective plgsus.
The Private Life of the Romans | Harold Whetstone JohnstonBut the germ-cells or germplasm continue to be immortal or deathless in the same sense as in the simplest organisms.
Taboo and Genetics | Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary BlanchardGirls would be for ever an intrusion between such deathless and endeared friends as they were.
Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton Mackenzie
British Dictionary definitions for deathless
/ (ˈdɛθlɪs) /
immortal, esp because of greatness; everlasting
Derived forms of deathless
- deathlessly, adverb
- deathlessness, noun
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