"death-like" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more death-like [comparative], most death-like [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} death-like (comparative more death-like, superlative most death-like)
  1. Alternative form of deathlike. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: deathlike
    Sense id: en-death-like-en-adj-gBz~9gED Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1807, [Miss Guion], chapter I, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, pages 5–6:",
          "text": "Not the faintest, or most distant sound, of any description whatsoever, reached their attentive listen; not even the reverberated echo of their footsteps struck their directed ear—a soft earth received their cautious tread, and all was a profound and death-like quiet.",
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          "ref": "1808 November 12, “The Mysterious Recluse”, in The Lady’s Weekly Miscellany, volume VIII, number 3, New York, N.Y., page 34, column 2:",
          "text": "“Theresa! (exclaimed the stranger) “is your name Theresa? asked she, a death-like paleness at the same time overspreading her countenance.",
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          "ref": "1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 101–102:",
          "text": "As this was a favourite meal with Mrs. Jennings, it lasted a considerable time, and they were just setting themselves, after it, round the common working table, when a letter was delivered to Marianne, which she eagerly caught from the servant, and, turning of a death-like paleness, instantly ran out of the room.",
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          "ref": "1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XVIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 317:",
          "text": "Some few disclosures, some secret conversations, broken by the hollow cough, by the death-like faintings, passed between them.",
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        {
          "ref": "1924, Victor Branford, Living Religions: A Plea for the Larger Modernism, page 47:",
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          "text": "As this was a favourite meal with Mrs. Jennings, it lasted a considerable time, and they were just setting themselves, after it, round the common working table, when a letter was delivered to Marianne, which she eagerly caught from the servant, and, turning of a death-like paleness, instantly ran out of the room.",
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