death-like

See also: deathlike

English

Adjective

death-like (comparative more death-like, superlative most death-like)

1. Alternative form of deathlike.
   • 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter I, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, pages 5–6:

     Not the faintest, or most distant sound, of any description whatsoever, reached their attentive listen; not even the reverberated echo of their footsteps struck their directed ear—a soft earth received their cautious tread, and all was a profound and death-like quiet.

   • 1808 November 12, “The Mysterious Recluse”, in The Lady’s Weekly Miscellany, volume VIII, number 3, New York, N.Y., page 34, column 2:

     “Theresa! (exclaimed the stranger) “is your name Theresa? asked she, a death-like paleness at the same time overspreading her countenance.

   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 101–102:

     As this was a favourite meal with Mrs. Jennings, it lasted a considerable time, and they were just setting themselves, after it, round the common working table, when a letter was delivered to Marianne, which she eagerly caught from the servant, and, turning of a death-like paleness, instantly ran out of the room.

   • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XVIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 317:

     Some few disclosures, some secret conversations, broken by the hollow cough, by the death-like faintings, passed between them.

   • 1924, Victor Branford, Living Religions: A Plea for the Larger Modernism, page 47:

     Mother Earth, at their devastating touch, falls into a death-like swoon—her green mantle overlaid by a dust-coloured shroud.