Morient
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Morient is an adjective meaning (rare, literary) Dying, moribund.
Meaning
(rare, literary) Dying, moribund.
Example Sentences
We are Cadent, if not Morient; we do not want for ſin; there is a Spirit of wickedneſs in the Land.
Albert the good, the brave, the great, thy land / Lies at thy feet, a crushed and morient rose / Trampled and desecrated by thy foes.
Four babes, and morient two, the breath / Went in and out their pallid lips, ’twas all: / They moaned the loss of love they never knew / And hands they had not felt.
In one last fond embrace salute the Bambino of the Ara Coeli, the Christus of Michael Angelo, the morient Gaul, the Teresan Ecstasy, Canova’s Princess, the Ludovisi Juno.
Word Forms
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