mortality
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Substantiivi
mortality englanniksi
The state or quality of being mortal.
The state of being susceptible to death.
(ant)
(RQ:Spenser Amoretti)
(RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets)
1714, (w), letter to (w) in ''Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons,'' London, 1735, Volume(nbs)2, p.(nbs)208,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004809116.0001.002
- I have been perpetually troubled with sickness of late, which has made me so melancholy that the Immortality of the Soul has been my constant Speculation, as the Mortality of my Body my constant Plague.
(quote-text) Thy sense is clogg’d with dull mortality; / They spirit fetter’d with the bond of clay: / Open thine eyes and see.”
(quote-text)
The quality of being punishable by death.
(RQ:Dryden Spanish Fryar) actions of Charity do alleviate, as I may say, and take off from the Mortality of the Sin.
The quality of causing death.
(syn)
(RQ:Shakespeare Measure for Measure)
1685, (w), ''Tract of Fevers,'' Chapter(nbs)15, in ''The London Practice of Physick,'' London: Thomas Basset and William Crooke, p.(nbs)626,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66498.0001.001
- (..) the Fevers of Women in Child-bed; to wit, both the Lacteal, and that called Putrid, which, by reason of its Mortality, deserves to be call’d Malignant.
The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a (l).
Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).
(RQ:Defoe Plague Year) the Mortality was so great in the Yard or Alley, that there was no Body left to give Notice to the Buriers or Sextons, that there were any dead Bodies there to be bury’d.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Chapman and Hall|volume=3|chapter=9|page=242|url=https://archive.org/details/ruthanovel02gaskgoog/page/n250/mode/1up?q=mortality|passage=(..) the doctors stood aghast at the swift mortality among the untended sufferers (..)
(RQ:Woolf Orlando) The mortality among sheep and cattle was enormous.
The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
(cot)|lethality
(RQ:Adam Smith Wealth of Nations)
(quote-book) what was the comparative mortality among the children of the most distressed part of the community, and those who lived rather more at their ease (..)
(RQ:Strachey Eminent Victorians)
(quote-book) a drought year brought conditions especially favorable to the beetle and the mortality of elms went up 1000 per cent.
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Death.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:John Gay Beggar's Opera)
(RQ:Hawthorne Scarlet Letter) 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.
(RQ:Heller Catch-22) the moldy odor of mortality hung wet in the air with the sulphurous fog (..)
{{quote-text|en|year=1604|author=Michael Drayton|title=Moyses in a Map of His Miracles|location=London|section=Book 1, pp. 8-9|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A73862.0001.001
(RQ:Homer Chapman Odysseys)