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English
Adjective
death-like (comparative more death-like, superlative most death-like)
- Alternative form of deathlike.
1807, , chapter I, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. , volume I, London: J F Hughes, , →OCLC, pages 5–6:Not the faintest, or most distant sound, of any description whatsoever, reached their attentive listen; not even the reverberated echo of their footsteps struck their directed ear—a soft earth received their cautious tread, and all was a profound and death-like quiet.
1808 November 12, “The Mysterious Recluse”, in The Lady’s Weekly Miscellany, volume VIII, number 3, New York, N.Y., page 34, column 2:“Theresa! (exclaimed the stranger) “is your name Theresa? asked she, a death-like paleness at the same time overspreading her countenance.
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Sense and Sensibility , volume II, London: C Roworth, , and published by T Egerton, , →OCLC, pages 101–102:As this was a favourite meal with Mrs. Jennings, it lasted a considerable time, and they were just setting themselves, after it, round the common working table, when a letter was delivered to Marianne, which she eagerly caught from the servant, and, turning of a death-like paleness, instantly ran out of the room.
1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XVIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 317:Some few disclosures, some secret conversations, broken by the hollow cough, by the death-like faintings, passed between them.
1924, Victor Branford, Living Religions: A Plea for the Larger Modernism, page 47:Mother Earth, at their devastating touch, falls into a death-like swoon—her green mantle overlaid by a dust-coloured shroud.