corpsehoodとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

corpsehood (uncountable)

1. death, quality of being dead
   • 2012, Tina Whittle, Darker Than Any Shadow, Head of Zeus (ISBN 9781781850275)

     ... your victim is headed for corpsehood right fast.”

   • 2010, Guy M. Townsend, The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 1 No. 6) November 1977, Wildside Press LLC (ISBN 9781434403858), page 23

     ... is called in to confirm that the murder victim has indeed achieved corpsehood.

   • 2012, Brian Norman, Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature, JHU Press (ISBN 9781421407999)

     When she asks for guidance on what to do when she herself inevitably achieves corpsehood, the cadavers just sit there, mute and rotting.

   • 2004, Robert Kastenbaum, On Our Way: The Final Passage Through Life and Death, Univ of California Press (ISBN 9780520218802), page 139

     Nevertheless, bones are mostly what endures after the early phases of corpsehood.

   • 2011, Al Roker, Dick Lochte, The Talk Show Murders: A Billy Blessing Novel, Delacorte Press (ISBN 9780345529305), page 265

     The comment about my impending corpsehood had been all the encouragement I'd needded.