Deadness
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Deadness - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
DEAD'NESS, n. ded'ness.
1. Want of natural life or vital power, in an animal or plant; as the deadness of a limb, of a body, or of a tree.
2. Want of animation; dullness; languor; as the deadness of the eye.
3. Want of warmth or ardor; coldness; frigidity; as the deadness of the affections.
4. State of being incapable of conception, according to the ordinary laws of nature. Rom 4:19.
5. Indifference; mortification of the natural desires; alienation of heart from temporal pleasures; as deadness to the world.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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