death-bearing

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From death +‎ bearing. Compare Old English dēaþbǣre, cwealmbǣre (literally “death-bearing”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

death-bearing (comparative more death-bearing, superlative most death-bearing)

  1. Bringing or carrying death; deadly; destructive
    • 2006, Olga Freidenberg, Image and Concept:
      A pitiless, death-bearing posterity lies on the earth without cries of grief. Meanwhile wives and even gray mothers — one on one side of the raised altar, the other on the other — lament, praying for protection from the deadly misfortunes.
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