What does deathy mean?
Deathy means (archaic, poetic) Relating to death..
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(archaic, poetic) Relating to death..
1829, Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay, Canto IV, XXXVIII, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, page 569, The sunny hue that tinged her cheek was gone, / A deathy paleness settled in its stead;
The deathy stillness of a town, and the barred windows, and shut shops, and empty streets, and great long lines of big brick buildins,^([sic]) look melancholy.
I heard a lady near whom I happened to sit one evening in a river-steamer describe it to a companion, when its swampy flats came into sight, as "a deathy place." The phrase was picturesque, effective and very appropriate. It did look a deathy place; but it had the advantages — to me supreme — of being very cheap, and of having easy access to the river, and therefore to town.
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Deathy means (archaic, poetic) Relating to death..
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1829, Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay, Canto IV, XXXVIII, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, page 569, The sunny hue that tinged her cheek was gone, / A deathy paleness settled in its stead;
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