undedlynesse
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English undēadlīcnes (“immortality”). By surface analysis, undedly + -nesse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /unˈdɛːdliːnɛs/, /unˈdɛdliːnɛs/
Noun
undedlynesse (uncountable)
- undeadliness, immortality
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Coꝛinthis ·i· 15:53, page 67v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- / foꝛ it bihoueþ þis coꝛruptible þing to cloþe, vncoꝛrupcioun .· ⁊ þis dedli þing to putte awei vndedlyneſſe
- […] , because it's necessary that the perishable one wears imperishability and the mortal one puts on immortality.
Descendants
- → English: undeadliness
References
- “undē̆dlīnes(se, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 February 2020.
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