corpsehood
nounEtymology From corpse + -hood.
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death, quality of being dead
- ... your victim is headed for corpsehood right fast.”2012, Tina Whittle, Darker Than Any Shadow, Head of Zeus, →ISBN:
- ... 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:
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- 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:
- 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:
- 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):