life-in-death
/lʌɪfɪnˈdɛθ/Chiefly literary
noun
A condition of being or seeming to be neither alive nor dead, a phantom state between life and death; (in extended use) something having the form or appearance of the supernatural, an apparition, a spectre.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in William Shakespeare (1564–1616), playwright and poet. From life + in + death.
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