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Living death

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Noun
  1. 1
    A condition of suffering, solitude, or impairment so extreme as to deprive one's existence of all happiness and meaning. idiomatic, uncountable, usually

    "La[dy Anne]. Neuer hung poiſon on a fouler toade, Out of my ſight thou doeſt infect my eies. Glo[ucester]. Thine eies ſweete Lady haue infected mine. La[dy Anne]. Would they were baſiliſkes to ſtrike thee dead. Glo[ucester]. I would they were that I might die at once, For now they kill me with a liuing death: […]"

  2. 2
    a state of constant misery wordnet

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