corpsehood

English

Etymology

corpse +‎ -hood

Noun

corpsehood (uncountable)

  1. death, quality of being dead
    • 2012, Tina Whittle, Darker Than Any Shadow, Head of Zeus, →ISBN:
      ... 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, 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:
      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, 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, page 265:
      The comment about my impending corpsehood had been all the encouragement I'd needded.
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