"struldbruggian" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From the name of a class of people in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels, who are immortal but remain susceptible to aging and disease.",
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      "form": "more struldbruggian",
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      "form": "most struldbruggian",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "name": "Gulliver's Travels",
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          "name": "Immortality",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968, University of Toronto Quarterly, volume 38, page 72:",
          "text": "Tithonus, reaching for immortality, achieves only a struldbruggian kind of existence; and Ulysses in his infinite search for knowledge sets out with his mariners on that final voyage that leads them only deathward.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Jeff McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life:",
          "text": "In short, if we imagine a person continuing to live indefinitely while remaining vulnerable to such evils as disease, injury, and aging, we are in effect imagining a struldbruggian immortality.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having or relating to an unsatisfactory form of immortality accompanied by aging and disease."
      ],
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          "aging",
          "aging"
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}

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  "etymology_text": "From the name of a class of people in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels, who are immortal but remain susceptible to aging and disease.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more struldbruggian",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most struldbruggian",
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        "superlative"
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          "text": "Tithonus, reaching for immortality, achieves only a struldbruggian kind of existence; and Ulysses in his infinite search for knowledge sets out with his mariners on that final voyage that leads them only deathward.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Jeff McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life:",
          "text": "In short, if we imagine a person continuing to live indefinitely while remaining vulnerable to such evils as disease, injury, and aging, we are in effect imagining a struldbruggian immortality.",
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}