Undying

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 10.] That does not die; immortal.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 18620. He ras … Bath godd and man als he was ar, Vndeiand [Trin. Vndyinge] nu for euermar.

1608.  Beaum. & Fl., Four Plays in One, III. Wks. 1912, X. 337. And [I] wish heartily, That firm affection … May take as deep undying root … Betwixt my Daughter Casta, and your goodness.

1667.  Milton, P. L., VI. 739. Driven down To chains of Darkness, and th’ undying Worm.

1816.  Byron, Siege Cor., xv. They fell devoted, but undying.

1887.  Morris, Odyss., XI. 133. Unto the Gods undying of the widespread heavenly home.

  absol.  1821.  [see UNBORN ppl. a. 3].

1891.  Morris (title), The Story of the Glittering Plain,… or the Acre of the Undying.

  b.  transf. Of feelings, etc.

c. 1765.  Falconer, Occas. Elegy, 31. No more … Shall … hopeless Love impart undying pain.

1816.  Byron, Ch. Har., III. c. By heavenly feet thy paths are trod,—Undying Love’s.

1885.  ‘Mrs. Alexander,’ Valerie’s Fate, v. The undying interest ever felt by kindly women in a question of love or marriage.

  Hence Undyingly adv., Undyingness.

a. 1864.  Hawthorne, Septimius (1872), 33. That strange idea of undyingness which had recently taken possession of him.

1881.  Miss Braddon, Asph., II. 282. He remembered how devotedly,… undyingly, he had once loved … Madeline.