deathless

adjective

death·​less ˈdeth-ləs How to pronounce deathless (audio)
: immortal, imperishable
deathless fame
deathlessly adverb
deathlessness noun

Examples of deathless in a Sentence

an author who craved deathless fame
Recent Examples on the Web The eloquence of this thought and feeling, incarnated as affect, proves every year to be deathless. Sophie Lewis, Harper's Magazine, 10 Oct. 2022 Writers’ moods certainly don’t work that way; after all, Malamud wrote at least a half-dozen deathless short stories and a couple of classic novels … and still felt sunk. Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023 And a lot of Ant-Man's charm when the character first debuted in his own standalone movie in 2015 was in fact the human scale of the story: a blithe, goofy comedy that just happened to have superhero stuff in it (and of course, the deathless dimples of Paul Rudd). Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023 The humor here, for modern Icelanders, lies in the extent of what the outside world didn’t grasp: that Iceland’s national history was a heroic tale of grit and ingenuity, that its literature, rooted in Norse folklore and medieval saga, was voluminous and deathless. Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 28 May 2021 In fact, his deathless prose is probably being desecrated by the relentless erosion of evolution right now. Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2010 But the whole thing feels lightly enchanted because what captures Pamuk’s attention is not morbidity and mortality but the steady deathless roll of events, and above all the strange fate of his fictional island. James Wood, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022 Those six words are a deathless expression of progressivism in 2022. Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Mar. 2022 What becomes extremely clear is that their endurance for creating music is plainly the product of a neurotic, serious, deathless motor. Washington Post, 18 June 2021

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Word History

First Known Use

1547, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of deathless was in 1547

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“Deathless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deathless. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

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deathless

adjective
death·​less ˈdeth-ləs How to pronounce deathless (audio)
: immortal entry 1, imperishable
deathless fame
deathlessness noun

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