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# {{label|en|intransitive}} To [[diminish]]; to cease gradually. |
# {{label|en|intransitive}} To [[diminish]]; to cease gradually. |
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# {{label|en|rare|obsolete|transitive}} To cause to die; to [[do away with]]. |
# {{label|en|rare|obsolete|transitive}} To cause to die; to [[do away with]]. |
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#*'''1748''', {{w|Samuel Richardson}}, ''Clarissa'', VII.45: |
#* '''1748''', {{w|Samuel Richardson}}, ''Clarissa'', VII.45: |
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#*:By little and little, in such a gradual sensible death […] God '''dies away''' in us, as I may say, all human satisfactions, in order to subdue his poor creatures to Himself. |
#*: By little and little, in such a gradual sensible death […] God '''dies away''' in us, as I may say, all human satisfactions, in order to subdue his poor creatures to Himself. |
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Revision as of 19:43, 16 October 2015
English
Verb
die away (third-person singular simple present dies away, present participle dying away, simple past and past participle died away)
- (intransitive) To die gradually or slowly.
- (intransitive) To diminish; to cease gradually.
- (rare, obsolete, transitive) To cause to die; to do away with.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, VII.45:
- By little and little, in such a gradual sensible death […] God dies away in us, as I may say, all human satisfactions, in order to subdue his poor creatures to Himself.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, VII.45: