Definition of Living death

1. Noun. A state of constant misery.

Generic synonyms: Miserableness, Misery, Wretchedness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Living Death

lividly
lividness
lividnesses
livier
liviers
living
living(a)
living-room
living accommodations
living anatomy
living arrangement
living bandage
living bandages
living conditions
living dead
living death (current term)
living donors
living down
living fossil
living fossils
living granite
living hell
living impaired
living in poverty
living in sin
living language
living languages
living quarters
living rock
living room

Literary usage of Living death

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

1. Davison's Poetical Rhapsody by Francis Davison, Arthur Henry Bullen (1891)
"A 2 living death. [AW] IF means be none to end my restless care, If needs I must o'erwhelmed with sorrow lie, What better way this sorrow to declare, ..."

2. Twenty Years Among Our Hostile Indians: Describing the Characteristics by James Lee Humfreville (1903)
"... of Prisoners—Captive Indian Women—A living death—An Incident on Green River—Indian Treatment of White Captive Women. SOME of the faculties of the wild ..."

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