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Middle English
Etymology
From Old English undēadlīcnes (“immortality”). By surface analysis, undedly + -nesse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /unˈdɛːdliːnɛs/, /unˈdɛdliːnɛs/
Noun
undedlynesse (uncountable)
- undeadliness, immortality
c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Coꝛinthis ·i· 15:53, page 67v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:/ foꝛ it bihoueþ þis coꝛruptible þing to cloþe, vncoꝛrupcioun .· ⁊ þis dedli þing to putte awei vndedlyneſſe- , because it's necessary that the perishable one wears imperishability and the mortal one puts on immortality.
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