dead-and-alive vs deathful

dead-and-alive

adj
  • Synonym of dead-alive 

deathful

adj
  • Subject to death; mortal. 

  • Involving the danger of death; fatal, deadly. 

  • Resembling or pertaining to death; deathly. 

How often have the words dead-and-alive and deathful occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )