deadland

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Wasteland

   Wasteland; a desert or other place that does not support life.

   • After the feverish days over deadland trails, — The repose of the gray-veiled and quiet-eyed twilight, The shimmering haze of the blue mountain valley, And the tranquil blue deep of the pool
   • To return to the deadland of desolation and desert, to choke in its dust, to be lashed in the face with its wind, to feel a loneliness of time and space, a loneliness of emptiness, […]
   • He runs out of gas, and back on the ground meets up with a girl who is motoring through the deadland to meet her boss in Phoenix for some obscure technocratic purpose.
2. 2

   A place of death

   A place of death; a deadly land.

   • Does the hideous famine that gnaws the entrails with fiery fangs and burns up the wrenched and tortured tissues till the land sickens with its burden of deadland dying—does that show His pity?
   • A band of iron fastens around his neck, a long chain drags him to the ground, pulling him away from his people to the deadland of the south — to the land of strangers, unknown and terrifying.
   • Nations that imprison, torture, assassinate, or drive their writers into exile fall into the deadlands of their own darkness.
3. 3

   The afterlife, especially in belief systems that do not include reward or punishment such…

   The afterlife, especially in belief systems that do not include reward or punishment such as heaven and hell.

   • I could not find out whether the victims are intoxicated before execution : it is highly probable, as the African's, and especially the Yoruban's, object is to send these messengers to deadland in the best of tempers.
   • A conquering race would scarcely credit that its heroes would, after death, betake themselves to the deadland of the beaten and enslaved aborigines.
   • “Do not do it,” said the god, “You cannot escape Ungit by going to the deadlands, for she is there also."

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