corpsehood

English

Etymology

corpse +‎ -hood

Noun

corpsehood (uncountable)

1. death, quality of being dead
   • 2012, Tina Whittle, Darker Than Any Shadow, Head of Zeus, →ISBN:

     ... your victim is headed for corpsehood right fast.”

   • 2010, Guy M. Townsend, The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 1 No. 6) November 1977, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 23:

     ... is called in to confirm that the murder victim has indeed achieved corpsehood.

   • 2012, Brian Norman, Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature, JHU Press, →ISBN:

     When she asks for guidance on what to do when she herself inevitably achieves corpsehood, the cadavers just sit there, mute and rotting.

   • 2004, Robert Kastenbaum, On Our Way: The Final Passage Through Life and Death, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 139:

     Nevertheless, bones are mostly what endures after the early phases of corpsehood.

   • 2011, Al Roker, Dick Lochte, The Talk Show Murders: A Billy Blessing Novel, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 265:

     The comment about my impending corpsehood had been all the encouragement I'd needded.