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单词 mortalness
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mortalnessn.

Brit. /ˈmɔːtəlnəs/, /ˈmɔːtl̩nəs/, U.S. /ˈmɔrdlnəs/
Forms: see mortal adj. and -ness suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mortal adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < mortal adj. + -ness suffix. Compare earlier mortality n.
Now rare.
The quality of being mortal (in various senses).
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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).
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