Definition of Deathlier

1. deathly [adj] - See also: deathly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deathlier

deather
deathers
deathfic
deathfics
deathful
deathfulness
deathhouse
deathhouses
deathier
deathiest
deathiness
deathless
deathlessly
deathlessness
deathlessnesses
deathlier (current term)
deathlike
deathlily
deathliness
deathlock
deathlocks
deathly
deathmatch
deathmatched
deathmatches
deathmatching
deathmonger
deathmongers
deathpunk
deathrate

Literary usage of Deathlier

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

1. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"... face had become of a deathlier paleness, her lips trembled, and she pressed her hands helplessly on the hands that lay under them. ..."

2. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1885)
"And worse I see, more spectral, deathlier far : Class set from class, each in its separate groove ; Straight on to death. I watched them stiffly move, ..."

3. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (1846)
"Cold, sad and spectral by my side It breathes of love's etherial bloom, And bridal memories long affied To deathlier silence than the tomb. ..."

4. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1892)
"His pulses throb with ardent life and have none of the “inexplicable faintness” of a deathlier school. What would not Crashaw have had to say of the ..."

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