Definition of "life-day" [life-day]

• Lifetime. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "For he is most hateful of men to us in the world, and hath slain our kindred, and deprived of life-day; and he is a heathen hound—hell he shall seek; there he shall sink for his treachery!"
• "There was Modred slain, and deprived of life-day, and all his knights slain in the fight."
• "None they captured, but all they them slew; and proceeded to the inn, into Winchester, and slew their swains, and their chamber-servants, their cooks, and their boys, all they deprived of life-day."