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nounlifeling (plural lifelings)
plural lifelings
- rareLittle life
Orsino: My gentleman Cesario? Sir Andrew: 'Od's lifelings, here he is!
c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
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