deathless

[ deth-lis ]

/ ˈdɛθ lɪs /

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adjective

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.

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Origin of deathless

First recorded in 1590–1600; death + -less

OTHER WORDS FROM deathless

death·less·ly, adverbdeath·less·ness, noun

Words nearby deathless

death grant, death house, death instinct, Death in Venice, death knell, deathless, deathlike, deathly, death mask, death match, death metal

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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 Post
Finally 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|DAILY BEAST
The deathless man character had been creeping around in other things I had written, so he came next.
A Fierce Debut|Jennie Yabroff|March 9, 2011|DAILY BEAST
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 Long

The 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 Johnston
But 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 Blanchard
Girls 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

deathless

/ (ˈdɛθlɪs) /

adjective

immortal, esp because of greatness; everlasting

Derived forms of deathless

deathlessly, adverbdeathlessness, noun

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