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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