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Deathy
Meaning
Adj
●
Relating to death.
●
1869 February, Justin McCarthy, “My Enemy's Daughter”, in Mary Elizabeth Braddon,
editor
, Belgravia,
volume
7,
page
186: 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.
1869 February, Justin McCarthy, “My Enemy's Daughter”, in Mary Elizabeth Braddon,
editor
, Belgravia,
volume
7,
page
186
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.
●
Misspelling of deathly.
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