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Grammar : Noun |
Spell : mawr-tal-i-tee |
Phonetic Transcription : mɔrˈtæl ɪ ti |
Definition of mortality
Origin :- mid-14c., "condition of being mortal," from Old French mortalite "massacre, slaughter; fatal illness; poverty; destruction" (12c.), from Latin mortalitem (nominative mortalitas) "state of being mortal; subjection to death," from mortalis (see mortal (adj.)). Meaning "widespread death" is from c.1400; meaning "number of deaths from some cause or in a given period" is from 1640s.
- noun death
- noun humanness
- Pass on, with your burden of mortality, And lay it in the tomb with jolly hearts.
- Extract from : « Main Street » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Our provisions were very bad, and the mortality among us was great.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- How altered and defaced by the putrifying touch of mortality!
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
- The mortality among the officers and men has been in proportion.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, Complete » by Lewis Goldsmith
- The mortality might have been higher than it was but for Peter Blood.
- Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
- If they knew they were bound they could throw off these besetments of mortality and walk in beauty.
- Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
- The essence of mortality is change, and we shall be changed.
- Extract from : « The Old Folks' Party » by Edward Bellamy
- In the latter part of 1896 the mortality was as high as 58 per thousand.
- Extract from : « Impressions of South Africa » by James Bryce
- The mortality rates were about the same for slaves as for whites.
- Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 » by Various
- This was not the proportion that there should have been if the mortality had been fortuitous.
- Extract from : « The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) » by J. Arthur Thomson
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