deathling means A mortal; one who will die. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
Etymology
From death + -ling.
noun
- A mortal; one who will die.“God gives and takes away your breath: What more have ye? Breath is your life, and life your soul; Ye have it warm from His kind hands: Then yield it back to the great Whole When He demands. Why, deathling, wilt thou long for Heaven?”
- A supernatural being associated with death, especially a child of death.“The interest of his realm had need That death should get a numerous breed; Young deathlings, who by practice made Proficient in their father's trade”
- A dead child.“In my mind's eye I gather the resident who did the tracheotomy, his patient with her collapsible veins, the nurse who said " Good," and, of course, the deathling in the bed.”