unlivingn.¹

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈlɪvɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˌənˈlɪvɪŋ/

Forms: see un- prefix¹ and living adj. and n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: unliving adj.

Etymology: < unliving adj. Compare living n.¹

A lifeless person; (chiefly with the and plural agreement) lifeless people as a class, the dead; (also) that which is not living or animate. Later also (with the and plural agreement): fictional beings which are neither living nor dead, considered collectively; the undead.

ΚΠ

OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John (headings to readings) xv Legenda pro defunctis : is to redanne fore deadum uel unlifiendum.

OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. lvii. 343 Þa soþlice se mæssepreost..mid his gebedum þingode for þone unlifgendan.

1578 T. Twyne tr. Tertullian in tr. L. Daneau Wonderfull Woorkmanship of World xliv. f. 85^v Which reason made the vniuersalitie out of diuersitie, that all thinges might appeare togither from many substances into an vnitie: out of voyd and sound: out of liuyng and vnliuyng: out of comprehensible and incomprehensible.

1837 Western Messenger Oct. 88 Standing triumphant over the Dead, or rather the Unliving, and looking life-ward.

a1875 J. Hinton Philos. & Relig. (1881) ii. 95 We divide nature into two portions, the inorganic and organic, or unliving and living.

1977 Crit. Rev. (Melbourne) No. 19. 103 His own increasing confusion between death and life, between the living and the unliving, the un-dead.

1997 N.Y. Times 30 Nov. (Book Review section) 20/2 The tradition of the ghost story seems hopelessly quaint. But Robert Girardi's Vaporetto 13..shows that there's still a lot of life left in the unliving.

2010 D. Hannah Exile of Sara Stevenson i. 3 Tales devised to scare children so they'd lie awake in their beds..straining to hear ghostly footsteps on the landing..or..the high-pitched moans of the unliving.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† unlivingn.²

Forms: see unlive v. and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: unlive v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < unlive v. + -ing suffix¹.

Obsolete. rare.

The action of unlive v. (in sense 1b); killing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > [noun]

mortifyingc1384

perishingc1384

slayinga1400

interfectionc1450

dispatchment1529

killingc1540

dispatch1576

unliving1599

martyring1607

taking offa1616

enecation1657

exanimation1670

(to get) the chop or chopper1945

wipeout1968

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 72 Nor liuest thou [sc. a herring] by the vnlyuing or euiscerating of others, as most fishes do.

1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect ii. i. 58 He..thought at once to be revenged for the flesh of his arme, and finding a hatchet, layes one with an arme of revenge to the unliving of ten men at first onset.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

unlivingadj.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈlɪvɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˌənˈlɪvɪŋ/

Forms: see un- prefix¹ and living adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, living adj.

Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + living adj. Compare Middle Dutch onlevende, Old High German unlebende (German †unlebend (16th cent.)), Old Swedish olivande.

Not living or alive, lifeless; inanimate, inactive. Later also: neither living nor dead; = undead adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > absence of life or consciousness > [adjective]

lifelessOE

unlivingOE

bloodless and bonelessOE

deadlya1225

dead1430

natureless1548

exanimate1552

inanimatea1555

unlively1563

spiritless1570

unquickened1610

unanimate1615

inanimal1623

inanimated1646

unvital1661

unanimated1697

unbreathing1709

unconscious1744

pulseless1820

azoic1854

not-living1869

abiotic1873

unvitalized1874

OE Beowulf (2008) 468 Ða wæs Heregar dead, min yldra mæg unlifigende..; se wæs betera ðonne ic!

OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. x. 85 Þa gefyldum his gebede, he aras & gesæt neh þam lichaman þæs unlifigendan mannes.

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 229 (MED) To folewe þe natural inclinaciouns wiþout knowing is þe fulfilling of lawe of kynde in vnlyuyng þingis.

1553 R. Horne tr. J. Calvin Certaine Homilies i. sig. Dij^v An vnliving creature.

1591 R. Southwell Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares f. 58 Her heart [seemed but] the cophin of an vnliuing soule.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Inuiuente, vnliuing.

1700 E. Howard Remarks New Philos. Des-Cartes iv. 330 Fire without Light, was originally convey'd by God..into the then, unliving Heart of Man, only to warm that principal Part.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela (ed. 2) I. Introd. p. xxxvii Sweet Pamela!.. Thou dear, unliving, yet immortal, Shade!

1839 Bible Christian Mar. 53 Astrology flourished, and men..sought to read among the unliving and unreasoning hosts of the firmament, the fate of individuals and of kingdoms.

1855 M. Arnold Balder Dead iii. 299 Entreat All living and unliving things to weep For Balder.

1907 Metaphysical Mag. Jan. 131 The plant derives this protoplasm from the inert, unliving elements—hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 168 I know the unliving factory-hand, living-dead millions, Is unliving me, living-dead me.

1974 Cinefantastique Fall 15/1 The horror may be a metaphorical manifestation of man's..fear of being unliving (The Mummy, zombies).

2015 S. Maasik & J. Solomon Signs of Life in USA (ed. 8) Introd. 13 The fact that vampires, zombies, and androids all denote unliving humanoids..enables us to associate them together in a single category.

Derivatives

unˈlivingness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun] > state or condition of

deathOE

homeOE

restOE

sleepOE

powderc1300

corruptiona1340

gravec1380

darkness1535

silence1535

tomb1559

iron sleep1573

another country1597

iron slumber1604

deadness1607

deadlihead1612

deadlihood1659

nothingness1813

unlivingness1914

post-mortemity1922

1914 D. H. Lawrence Prussian Officer & Other Stories 80 The sick man lay as if dead... Miss Louisa was heavy-hearted under the load of unlivingness.

1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover x. 168 There was a toughness, a curious rubber-necked toughness and unlivingness about the middle and upper classes.

2008 A. Strout Dead to Me 51 I worried that the people around us might have noticed the cup go flying through the woman... But their minds were protective of their sanity and made them happily oblivious to things such as this woman's unlivingness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹OE

n.²1599

adj.OE

单词	unliving
释义	unlivingn.¹ Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈlɪvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənˈlɪvɪŋ/ Forms: see un- prefix¹ and living adj. and n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: unliving adj. Etymology: < unliving adj. Compare living n.¹ A lifeless person; (chiefly with the and plural agreement) lifeless people as a class, the dead; (also) that which is not living or animate. Later also (with the and plural agreement): fictional beings which are neither living nor dead, considered collectively; the undead. ΚΠ OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John (headings to readings) xv Legenda pro defunctis : is to redanne fore deadum uel unlifiendum. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. lvii. 343 Þa soþlice se mæssepreost..mid his gebedum þingode for þone unlifgendan. 1578 T. Twyne tr. Tertullian in tr. L. Daneau Wonderfull Woorkmanship of World xliv. f. 85^v Which reason made the vniuersalitie out of diuersitie, that all thinges might appeare togither from many substances into an vnitie: out of voyd and sound: out of liuyng and vnliuyng: out of comprehensible and incomprehensible. 1837 Western Messenger Oct. 88 Standing triumphant over the Dead, or rather the Unliving, and looking life-ward. a1875 J. Hinton Philos. & Relig. (1881) ii. 95 We divide nature into two portions, the inorganic and organic, or unliving and living. 1977 Crit. Rev. (Melbourne) No. 19. 103 His own increasing confusion between death and life, between the living and the unliving, the un-dead. 1997 N.Y. Times 30 Nov. (Book Review section) 20/2 The tradition of the ghost story seems hopelessly quaint. But Robert Girardi's Vaporetto 13..shows that there's still a lot of life left in the unliving. 2010 D. Hannah Exile of Sara Stevenson i. 3 Tales devised to scare children so they'd lie awake in their beds..straining to hear ghostly footsteps on the landing..or..the high-pitched moans of the unliving. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † unlivingn.² Forms: see unlive v. and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: unlive v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < unlive v. + -ing suffix¹. Obsolete. rare. The action of unlive v. (in sense 1b); killing. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > [noun] mortifyingc1384 perishingc1384 slayinga1400 interfectionc1450 dispatchment1529 killingc1540 dispatch1576 unliving1599 martyring1607 taking offa1616 enecation1657 exanimation1670 (to get) the chop or chopper1945 wipeout1968 hit1970 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 72 Nor liuest thou [sc. a herring] by the vnlyuing or euiscerating of others, as most fishes do. 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect ii. i. 58 He..thought at once to be revenged for the flesh of his arme, and finding a hatchet, layes one with an arme of revenge to the unliving of ten men at first onset. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online September 2018). unlivingadj. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈlɪvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənˈlɪvɪŋ/ Forms: see un- prefix¹ and living adj. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, living adj. Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + living adj. Compare Middle Dutch onlevende, Old High German unlebende (German †unlebend (16th cent.)), Old Swedish olivande. Not living or alive, lifeless; inanimate, inactive. Later also: neither living nor dead; = undead adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > absence of life or consciousness > [adjective] lifelessOE unlivingOE bloodless and bonelessOE deadlya1225 dead1430 natureless1548 exanimate1552 inanimatea1555 unlively1563 spiritless1570 unquickened1610 unanimate1615 inanimal1623 inanimated1646 unvital1661 unanimated1697 unbreathing1709 unconscious1744 pulseless1820 azoic1854 not-living1869 abiotic1873 unvitalized1874 OE Beowulf (2008) 468 Ða wæs Heregar dead, min yldra mæg unlifigende..; se wæs betera ðonne ic! OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. x. 85 Þa gefyldum his gebede, he aras & gesæt neh þam lichaman þæs unlifigendan mannes. c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 229 (MED) To folewe þe natural inclinaciouns wiþout knowing is þe fulfilling of lawe of kynde in vnlyuyng þingis. 1553 R. Horne tr. J. Calvin Certaine Homilies i. sig. Dij^v An vnliving creature. 1591 R. Southwell Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares f. 58 Her heart [seemed but] the cophin of an vnliuing soule. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Inuiuente, vnliuing. 1700 E. Howard Remarks New Philos. Des-Cartes iv. 330 Fire without Light, was originally convey'd by God..into the then, unliving Heart of Man, only to warm that principal Part. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela (ed. 2) I. Introd. p. xxxvii Sweet Pamela!.. Thou dear, unliving, yet immortal, Shade! 1839 Bible Christian Mar. 53 Astrology flourished, and men..sought to read among the unliving and unreasoning hosts of the firmament, the fate of individuals and of kingdoms. 1855 M. Arnold Balder Dead iii. 299 Entreat All living and unliving things to weep For Balder. 1907 Metaphysical Mag. Jan. 131 The plant derives this protoplasm from the inert, unliving elements—hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 168 I know the unliving factory-hand, living-dead millions, Is unliving me, living-dead me. 1974 Cinefantastique Fall 15/1 The horror may be a metaphorical manifestation of man's..fear of being unliving (The Mummy, zombies). 2015 S. Maasik & J. Solomon Signs of Life in USA (ed. 8) Introd. 13 The fact that vampires, zombies, and androids all denote unliving humanoids..enables us to associate them together in a single category. Derivatives unˈlivingness n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > state or condition of deathOE homeOE restOE sleepOE powderc1300 corruptiona1340 gravec1380 darkness1535 silence1535 tomb1559 iron sleep1573 another country1597 iron slumber1604 deadness1607 deadlihead1612 deadlihood1659 nothingness1813 unlivingness1914 post-mortemity1922 1914 D. H. Lawrence Prussian Officer & Other Stories 80 The sick man lay as if dead... Miss Louisa was heavy-hearted under the load of unlivingness. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover x. 168 There was a toughness, a curious rubber-necked toughness and unlivingness about the middle and upper classes. 2008 A. Strout Dead to Me 51 I worried that the people around us might have noticed the cup go flying through the woman... But their minds were protective of their sanity and made them happily oblivious to things such as this woman's unlivingness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹OEn.²1599adj.OE
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unlivingn.1

† unlivingn.2

unlivingadj.

Derivatives

unlivingn.¹

† unlivingn.²