Deathling

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

A mortal; one who will die..

Definitions by Sense

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

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

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

Deathlings or even wraiths weren't the deadliest weapons.

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