deathling

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mortal; one who will die.
    — God gives and takes away your breath: What more have ye? Breath is your life, and life your soul; Ye have it warm from His kind hands: Then yield it back to the great Whole When He demands. Why, deathling, wilt thou long for Heaven?
  2. A supernatural being associated with death, especially a child of death.
    — The interest of his realm had need That death should get a numerous breed; Young deathlings, who by practice made Proficient in their father's trade
  3. A dead child. rare
    — In my mind's eye I gather the resident who did the tracheotomy, his patient with her collapsible veins, the nurse who said " Good," and, of course, the deathling in the bed.

词形变化

deathlings plural

词源

From death + -ling.
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