moribund
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Moribund and obdurate, Cassovan represents the old guard; he is the custodian and elegist of an unalienable tragedy.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 9, 2018
And if you’re wondering why I buried that lead sentence, it’s because we’re all in jail with her, too – the Penitentiary of Moribund Plot Lines.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2015
Moribund patients are detained lest they die en route.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
Moribund, mo′ri-bund, adj. about to die: in a dying state.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Dryden's Moribund runs on, quite at his ease, in eloquent disquisition.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
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