Agelessness

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9. Agelessness (See also Immortality.)

  1. Endymion man kept immortally youthful through eternal sleep. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 91; Br. Lit.: Endymion in Harvey, 271]
  2. Gray, Dorian artist Basil Hallwards ideal of youth remains young as his portrait ages. [Br. Lit.: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Magill I, 746748]
  3. Grecian urn lovers depicted on it will be forever young. [Br. Poetry: Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn]
  4. Little Orphan Annie teenage heroine who has not aged since strip started (1938). [Comics: Little Orphan Annie in Horn, 459]

Aggressiveness (See CONQUEST.)