Mortality

/mɔɹˈtælɪti/ · noun

Meaning

The state or quality of being mortal..

Definitions by Sense

1. The state or quality of being mortal.
2. The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.
3. (figuratively) Death.
4. (figuratively, archaic) Mortals collectively.

Example Sentences

Why am I mockt with death, and length’nd out / To deathless pain? how gladly would I meet / Mortalitie my sentence, and be Earth / Insensible,

Learn to bear your Husband’s Death like a reasonable Woman. ’Tis not the fashion, now-a-days so much as to affect Sorrow upon these Occasions. No Woman would ever marry, if she had not the Chance of Mortality for a Release.

[…] like a sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man’s bosom, but likely to find nothing save mortality and corruption.

[…] the moldy odor of mortality hung wet in the air with the sulphurous fog […]

It is not fit Mortalitie should knowe / What his eternall prouidence decreed,

[S]leepe seiz’d his weary eye, / That salues all care, to all mortality.

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• mortalities

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