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anti-life, a. and n.|ˈæntɪlaɪf|
[anti-1 2 b, 4 + life n.]
A. adj. Opposed to living fully and harmoniously with the natural order.
B. n. An alleged contrary principle to full and natural living; an attitude, or course of action, in accordance with this principle.
1926D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent vi. 112 But he, too, was widdershins, unwinding the sensations of disintegration and anti-life. 1929― Let. 12 June in F. Lawrence Not I, But the Wind (1935) 252 The real principle of Evil is not anti-Christ or anti-Jehovah, but anti-life. I agree with you, in a sense, that I am with the anti-Christ. Only I am not anti-life. 1938‘N. Blake’ Beast must Die iii. xii. 214 Somewhere deep within her, thought Nigel, there is a stone core of lifelessness, an anti-life principle. 1956C. Wilson Outsider iii. 47 The atmosphere of the Existentialist Outsider is unpleasant to breathe. There is something nauseating, anti-life, about it. |