undeadliness en · NOUN
Etymology
Calque of Middle English undedlynesse (or, in some cases, a continuation rather than a calque), from Old English undēadlīcnes (“immortality”); equivalent to undeadly + -ness; compare German Unsterblichkeit, a similarly formed compound.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The condition of not being susceptible to death; immortality.
So is the righteous man white in cleanness of soul, and therefore shall he have a white stole of undeadliness in the high Lebanon that is the bliss of heaven.
1929 [p. 1350, a.1396], Dorothy, transl. Jones, Minor works of Walter Hilton, translation of original by Walter Hilton:Although the holy fathers, who were before us, very certainly knew about that which thou formerly askedst; that is, about the undeadliness of men's souls, which was very clear in this that they naught doubted, […]
1852, “A Modern English Version of King Alfred's Blossom-Gatherings from Saint Augustine”, in The whole works of King Alfred the Great, volume 2, page 83:"If a man might die, and have done with it all! But to meet God! And 'tis no sweven,¹ ne fallacy, this dread undeadliness² — it is real." 1. Dream 2. Immortality.
1875, Emily Sarah Holt, The White Rose of Langley: a story of the court of England in the olden time, page 2:To this will I answer thee, that He had been dead, and was clad with undeadliness, and so shall we be at the Day of Doom.
2007 [p. 1350, a. 1400], Evelyn, transl. Underhill, The Cloud of Unknowing, translation of The Cloude of Unknowyng:He that dwelleth between the terms hath near-hand forsaken deadliness, but not fully, and hath near-hand gotten undeadliness, but not fully.
1957 [p. 1154, a. 1162], Ray C., transl. Petry, “Capitulum VII”, in Late Medieval Mysticism, translation of Benjamin by Richard of Saint Victor, page 106:to find the same / Old traits of time’s undeadliness and fame / In Dante’s visions, and in Shakespeare’s lore, / And Chaucer’s quaint and graphic strains of yore.
1880, Richard Robert Madden, “Farewell lines to an old friend”, in The Memoirs (chiefly autobiographical) from 1798 to 1886 of Richard Robert Madden, published 1891, page 152: