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Antonyms for immortality


Grammar : Noun
Spell : im-awr-tal-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɪm ɔrˈtæl ɪ ti



Definition of immortality

Origin :
  • mid-14c., "deathlessness," from Old French immortalité (13c.) and directly from Latin immortalitatem (nominative immortalitas) "deathlessness, endless life," from immortalis (see immortal). Sense of "everlasting fame" is from 1530s.
  • noun endless life
  • noun enduring fame
Example sentences :
  • You live for immortality in this world; I live for immortality in another.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • Many volumes of poetry put in their claim to immortality every year.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • The weak tenderness of his mother has cost the poor boy an immortality.
  • Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The gods heard his prayer and took away his pain and his immortality.
  • Extract from : « Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew » by Josephine Preston Peabody
  • But this immortality will have been purchased at the price of his immortal part.
  • Extract from : « Casanova's Homecoming » by Arthur Schnitzler
  • He is a stronger proof of the immortality of the soul than any that philosophy ever produced.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
  • There is no hell because there is no immortality of the soul.
  • Extract from : « Initiation into Philosophy » by Emile Faguet
  • There is, indeed, an essence of immortality in the life of man, even in this world.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • The peaches of immortality suggest the apples of the Hesperides.
  • Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
  • By slow, but never ceasing steps, they tread the path of immortality and honour.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin

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