deathless

[ deth-lis ]

adjective

1. not subject to death; immortal:

   the belief that the human soul is deathless.

2. unceasing; perpetual:

   his deathless devotion to the cause.

3. likely to endure because of superior quality, timelessness, etc. (sometimes used ironically):

   deathless prose.

deathless

/ ˈdɛθlɪs /

adjective

1. immortal, esp because of greatness; everlasting

Derived Forms

• ˈdeathlessly, adverb
• ˈdeathlessness, noun

Other Words From

• deathless·ly adverb
• deathless·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of deathless¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; death + -less

Example Sentences

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.

From Washington Post

Finally the epithet of "deathless" gets some explanation, stemming from Golovan's fearless ministrations during a plague.

From The Daily Beast

The deathless man character had been creeping around in other things I had written, so he came next.

From The 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.

From Project Gutenberg

The genius of Berini, Guido, and the Caracci, has glorified his memory in deathless painting and in animated bust.

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Horace has given to his teacher, Orbilius, a deathless fame by the adjective plgsus.

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But the germ-cells or germplasm continue to be immortal or deathless in the same sense as in the simplest organisms.

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Girls would be for ever an intrusion between such deathless and endeared friends as they were.

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