living death

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)A condition ofsuffering,solitude, orimpairmentso extreme as todepriveone's existence of allhappinessandmeaning.c.1593(date written), [William Shakespeare],The Tragedy of King Richard the Third.[…](First Quarto), London:[…]Valentine Sims[andPeter Short] forAndrew Wise,[…], published1597,→OCLC, [Act I, scene ii],signature B2, recto: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 aliuing death:[…]1860,George Eliot[pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a Pocket-knife”, inThe Mill on the Floss[…], volume II, Edinburgh; London:William Blackwood and Sons,→OCLC, book III (The Downfall),page82:Mr Tulliver, who had begun, in his intervals of consciousness, to manifest an irritability which often appeared to have as a direct effect the recurrence of spasmodic rigidity and insensibility, had lain in thisliving deaththroughout the critical hours when the noise of the sale came nearest to his chamber.1893,A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Fall of the Catinats”, inThe Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents, volume II, London:Longmans, Green, and Co.,→OCLC,[part I (In the Old World)],page188:If their creed were no longer tolerated, then, and if they remained true to it, they must either fly from the country or spend aliving deathtugging at an oar or working in a chain-gang upon the roads.1904,E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 9, inThe Master Mummer:"[W]e cling so closely here to our own doctrine of isolation. . . .""Isobel is intended, then?" I asked."For the Church," Madame Richard answered. . . ."Madame," I answered, "Isobel is meant for life—not aliving death."1988March 21,Heart of Glory(Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Science Fiction),Paramount Domestic Television,→OCLC:WORF: When my foster brother and I were of age, we entered the Starfleet Academy. He hated it and returned to Gault. I stayed.KONMEL: You have not spent much time among your own kind.WORF: Hardly none.KORRIS: So, when the night was still and quiet, and the sound of the blood rushing through your veins filled your ears, the only way to silence it was to slip out into the night and, like the hunter that spawned you, join in the struggle of life and death. You were unableKONMEL: And those around you did not understand. You frightened them.KORRIS: They shunned you. Cursed you. Called you vile names, and you knew not why. Even now do you know why you are driven? Why you cannot relent or repent or confess or abstain? How could you know? There have been no other Klingons to lead you to that knowledge.WORF: Yes. Yes, those feelings are part of me. But I control them. They do not rule me.KORRIS: Yes. To fit in, the humans demand that you change the one thing that you cannot change. Yet, because you cannot, you do. That too is the mark of the warrior. You said that I mock you. I do not. I salute you.KONMEL: But against whom do you test yourself? Against what enemy do you charge into battle?WORF: I have been in battle.KORRIS: Then you understand.WORF: Yes, I do.KORRIS: Brother, this peace, this alliance, is like aliving deathto warriors like us.KONMEL: You're right, we lied to your Commander. We commandeered that freighter and left the crew behind, and we were in search of a place where we could live our lives like true Klingons.2004November 7, John Schwartz, James Estrin, “Living for Today, Locked in a Paralyzed Body”, inNew York Times, retrieved12 June 2014:A.L.S., or Lou Gehrig's disease, is often described as a kind ofliving deathin which the body goes flaccid while the mind remains intact and acutely aware.

Examples:

EN: This isn't suffering. It's a living death.
ES: Esto no es sufrimiento, ¡es estar enterrado vivo!
EN: He grants us our lives in exchange for a living death.
ES: Nos otorga nuestras vidas a cambio de una muerte en vida.
EN: I was thinking of my husband, condemned to suffer a living death.
ES: El pensar en mi esposo, condenado a sufrir una muerte en vida.
EN: Every time I think we saved an innocent man from a living death.
ES: Cuando pienso que salvé a un inocente de ser enterrado en vida.
EN: But an endless, living death of fear and terror and torment to each and every one of you who will have wrongly condemned him.
ES: pero una vida larga, llena de terror, tormento y culpa para cada uno de ustedes que lo condenaron injustamente en este juicio.
EN: But what they really get is a slow, living death.
ES: Pero lo que realmente consiguen es una lenta muerte en vida.
EN: I cry. And you too shall cry when I show you... the painful stages of this painful, painful living death.
ES: Y llorarán también ustedes cuando les muestre las fases más dolorosas de tan doloroso calvario.
EN: It's a living death, mr. Gordon.
ES: La muerte en vida.
EN: That's where I spent four months of living death.
ES: Cuatro meses de muerte en vida.
EN: Each detail of his crimes came back to him in nightmares with added horror, haunting him relentlessly with the living death of his soul.
ES: Cada detalle de sus crímenes volvía a él en sus pesadillas, con terror añadido, persiguiéndole con la muerte de su alma.
EN: A world of living death.
ES: Un mundo de muertos en vida.
EN: A house without love is a living death
ES: Una casa sin encanto es una muerte en vida
EN: Into the molten wilderness of sin, where granite sentinels stand as towers of living death to bar his way.
ES: Dentro del desierto fundido del pecado, donde los centinelas de granito son como torres de muerte vivientes que impiden su camino.
EN: Gideon Drew, being found guilty before his comrades of a crime most foul was this day sentenced to a living death.
ES: "Gideon Drew, al ser declarado culpable ante sus camaradas de un crimen atroz, fue este día condenado a muerte en vida".
EN: Gideon Drew being found guilty before his comrades of a crime most foul was this day sentenced to a living death.
ES: "Gideon Drew, al ser declarado culpable ante sus camaradas de un crimen atroz fue este día condenado a muerte en vida".

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