Definition of Deadliest

1. Adjective. (superlative of deadly) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deadliest

1. deadly [adj] - See also: deadly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deadliest

deadfall
deadfalls
deadhead
deadheaded
deadheading
deadheads
deadhearted
deadheartedness
deadhouse
deadhouses
deading
deadish
deadlatch
deadlatches
deadlier
deadliest (current term)
deadlift
deadlifted
deadlifting
deadlifts
deadlight
deadlights
deadlihood
deadline
deadlined
deadlines
deadliness
deadlinesses
deadlining
deadlink

Literary usage of Deadliest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Assassination of President Lincoln: And the Trial of the Conspirators by David E. Herold, Benn Pitman (1865)
"Been in bad health Now offers his services to rid the country of some of its deadliest enemies. Asks for papers to permit him to travel within the ..."

2. Lives of the Queens of England: from the Norman conquest by Agnes Strickland (1848)
"... and Mary's informants, who were probably her deadliest foes, h<td repeated, to Anne Boleyn and the king, any imprudence she, in the excitement of the ..."

3. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"Long afterwards did Scotland know Fell Edward was her deadliest foe. " The vision made our monarch start, But soon he manned his noble heart. ..."

4. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"But shall it bear this, the deadliest fruit of all ? I say, Not so; never ; but certainly not yet. This is the issue. And now addressing myself to this ..."

5. The Theological and Literary Journal (1861)
"The prophet meant to denote by it an animal of the deadliest And expressing his dissent from a construction which he erroneously ascribed to Jerome, ..."

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