Meaning of deathling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mortal; one who will die.
2. A supernatural being associated with death, especially a child of death.
3. A dead child.
   rare

Examples

“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”

“Meanwhile most of the deathling troop had rustled past them and fallen on the Taians.”

“Deathlings or even wraiths weren't the deadliest weapons.”

“In my mind's eye I gather the resident who did the tracheotomy, his patient with her collapsible veins, the nurse who said " Good," and, of course, the deathling in the bed.”

“The old mother grieves her deathling.”

“you are all I had in this world beloved deathling alone and cold it is behind my ribs”

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