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Synonyms for mortality

Grammar : Noun
Spell : mawr-tal-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : mɔrˈtæl ɪ ti

Top 10 synonyms for mortality
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Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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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