deathling
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A supernatural being associated with death, especially a child of death.
Example Sentences
- "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?"
- "But for us, let us hearken the counsel of Zeus most high, and obey, Who over the deathling race and the deathless beareth sway."
- "Vain, helpless deathling! thou that seek'st for fame By hurling filth at an eternal name."
- "Unto whom the Seducer, not our romantic Satan but a clever cartesian Archon, coaxingly thus: Not doing very well, are you, poor deathling, no, and unlikely to do any better, thanks to the schemes of We-Know-Whom,"
- "I am a deathling doomed to hell."
- "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"