Meanings
comparative more phoenixlike · superlative most phoenixlike
- Resembling a phoenix, especially in being (figuratively) reborn after destruction.
Hotel Corones, which has risen phoenix-like on the site of the old Norman Hotel, has a frontage of 210 feet[.]
1973, John Larkins, Australian Pubs, page 1731 more example
Weaving from tree to tree in an obstacle-course marathon that she could only lose, in a dream-strange showdown amont the phoenixes from which she could not rise phoenixlike if she were killed, Jane felt a tugging at her right sleeve.
2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 46
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