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death-bearing

adj

Etymology

From death + bearing. Compare Old English dēaþbǣre, cwealmbǣre (literally “death-bearing”).

  1. derived from *beraną✻ — “to bear; carry”
  2. inherited from *berandz✻
  3. inherited from berende — “bearing; fruitful”
  4. inherited from beringe
  5. compounded as death-bearing — “death + bearing”

Definitions

  1. Bringing or carrying death

    Bringing or carrying death; deadly; destructive

    • A pitiless, death-bearing posterity lies on the earth without cries of grief. Meanwhile wives and even gray mothers — one on one side of the raised altar, the other on the other — lament, praying for protection from the deadly misfortunes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for death-bearing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA