deathless

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1. Undying or immortal.

   Athena For mighty is the potency of the revered Erinyes both with the deathless high gods and with the powers of the world below; […]

   1926, Herbert Weir Smyth, “Eumenides”, in Aeschylus, with an English translation, volume II, page 363

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   Like the deathless vampire who must repeat its stalk-and-kill cycle in order to satisfy a recurring blood hunger, the earliest film horrors cannibalized its literary ancestry again and again.

   2005, Tony Magistrale, Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film

   “Hey, how do I kill this guy anyway?” “Finn, you can't kill my Dad!” “Oh, I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean --” “No, you literally can't kill my Dad. He's deathless.” “Oh.”

   2010 October 11, Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar, “It Came from the Nightosphere” (3:15 from the start), in Adventure Time, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Marceline the Vampire Queen (Olivia Olson)

2. usuallyliteratureGuaranteed not to be lost or forgotten due to its importance or conspicuous excellence.

   Her novels are filled with unforgettable characters and deathless prose.

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   "We cannot do less than call it Ixodes Maloni. The very small inconvenience of being bitten, my young friend, cannot, I am sure, weigh with you as against the glorious privilege of having your name inscribed in the deathless roll of zoology."

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

   Finally, one voice in England proclaimed him a deathless dramatist and portrayer of character (Morgann) (<422).

   2000, Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 516

   So, would we get a Gettysburg address for the 21st century? A deathless line like “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”?

   2026 July 5, David Smith, “The strangest show on earth: lightning, imperial hubris and a boring tour of Trump’s rhetorical back alleys”, in The Guardian, →ISSN