double life, n.Definitions

Double life (n.) entails ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠double death, and one of the lives may already be dead without our knowing it.

The Double life (n.) twists ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a life by doubling, not by dissimulation: Romand escaped banality by inventing a parallel one.

A Double life (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠two personalities existing side by side or in succession, each striving for mastery, as in a girl who was at once an ordinary fifteen-year-old and a solemn seeress.