fall asleep in the Lord
English
Verb
fall asleep in the Lord (third-person singular simple present falls asleep in the Lord, present participle falling asleep in the Lord, simple past fell asleep in the Lord, past participle fallen asleep in the Lord)
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, poetic, archaic, euphemistic) To die.
- 1778, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Letter to Leopold Mozart:
- den nemlichen Tag den 3:ten ist meine Mutter abends um 10 uhr 21 Minuten in gott seelig entschlafen
- That very same day, the 3d, at twenty minutes past ten at night, my mother fell asleep peacefully in the Lord
- den nemlichen Tag den 3:ten ist meine Mutter abends um 10 uhr 21 Minuten in gott seelig entschlafen
- 1778, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Letter to Leopold Mozart:
Synonyms
- (poetic, euphemistic: to die): fall asleep, pass, pass away, pass over
Translations
euphemism for "to die"
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