corpsehood en · NOUN
Etymology
From corpse + -hood.
Meanings
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(uncountable) death, quality of being dead
I doubt the goddess will forgive you. You're far too close to corpsehood to clean up your act now.
2023 October 13, Macy Anne Johnson (dub), Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, spoken by Frieren (Mallorie Rodak):When she asks for guidance on what to do when she herself inevitably achieves corpsehood, the cadavers just sit there, mute and rotting.
2012, Brian Norman, Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature, JHU Press, →ISBN:Nevertheless, bones are mostly what endures after the early phases of corpsehood.
2004, Robert Kastenbaum, On Our Way: The Final Passage Through Life and Death, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 139:... is called in to confirm that the murder victim has indeed achieved corpsehood.
2010, Guy M. Townsend, The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 1 No. 6) November 1977, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 23:The comment about my impending corpsehood had been all the encouragement I'd needded.
2011, Al Roker, Dick Lochte, The Talk Show Murders: A Billy Blessing Novel, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 265:... your victim is headed for corpsehood right fast.”
2012, Tina Whittle, Darker Than Any Shadow, Head of Zeus, →ISBN: