单词 | mortalness |
释义 | mortalnessn. Now rare. The quality of being mortal (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > liability to ashc950 deathlinessOE deadliness?c1225 mortalityc1400 mortalness1530 dyingness1700 sparrow-fall1946 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [noun] manqualmeOE deathOE starveOE woundc1369 pestilencea1382 murraina1387 mortality?a1425 plaguea1475 pest1479 cladec1480 traik1513 mortalness1530 pestility1570 the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [noun] > deadly plague mortality?a1425 mortalness1530 the world > life > death > cause of death > [noun] > lethal quality mortality?a1439 deadlinessc1450 mortalness1638 lethality1656 mortiferousness1856 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 246/2 Mortalnesse, mortalité. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. i. 44 In the one place the mortalnesse, in the other the misery of their woundes wasted them all. 1638 E. Reynolds Medit. Last Supper xv, in Wks. (1658) 623 Though we are not perfectly cleansed from the soil [of sin], yet are we soundly healed from the mortalness and bruises of it. 1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 70 Those edgless weapons may vie with the keenest, for the mortalness of their effects. 1890 Mind 15 562 When we say ‘All men are mortal’, the statement..is..‘The quality man-ness is-always-attended-with the quality mortal-ness.’ a1970 C. Olson Maximus Poems (1983) III. 538 He has no thought left, nor money nor mortalness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1530 |
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