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Word entry · 9 letters

mortality

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"Death rate"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /mɔɹˈtælɪti/Part of speech nounSorted ailmorttyStarts with MEnds with Y1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the quality or state of being mortal

Word origin

From Old French mortalite, from Latin mortālitās, from mortālis (“relating to death”), from mors (“death”); equivalent to mortal + -ity.

Used in a sentence

  • [H]er minde remembreth her mortalitie, / vvhat ſo is fayreſt ſhall to earth returne.
  • Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, / But sad mortality o’er-sways their power, / How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, / Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
  • “[…] Thy sense is clogg’d with dull mortality; / They spirit fetter’d with the bond of clay: / Open thine eyes and see.”

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