Meaning of mortality | Babel Free

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1. The state or quality of being mortal.
   countable, uncountable
2. The state of being susceptible to death.
   countable, uncountable
3. The state or quality of being mortal. The state of being susceptible to death
4. a human being. All mortals must die sometime. sterfling إنْسان، مَخْلوق بَشَري човек mortal smrtelník, -ice der/die Sterbliche dødelig θνητόςmortal surelik مرگبار kuolevainen mortel/-elle בֵּן-אָדָם मानव smrtnik ember manusia manneskja, dauðleg vera mortale 人間 인간 mirtingasis, žmogus mirstīgais manusia stervelingmenneske, sjel śmiertelnik وژونكى mortal muritor смертный smrteľník, -čka smrtnik čovek dödlig มนุษย์ insan 凡人 смертний, людина انسان con người 凡人
5. The quality of being punishable by death.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
6. The state of being susceptible to death
7. in such a way as to cause death. He has been mortally wounded. noodlottig بِصورَةٍ مُميتَه смъртоносно mortalmente smrtelně tödlich dødeligt θανάσιμαmortalmente surmavalt بطور کشنده tappavasti mortellement בְּצוָּרה אֲנוּשָׁה मर्त्यता, नश्वरता smrtno halálosan parah sekali lífshættulega mortalmente 死ぬほどに 치명적으로 mirtinai nāvīgi parah sekali dodelijkdødeligśmiertelnie وژونكى mortalmente mortal, de moarte смертельно smrteľne smrtno smrtno dödligt ขนาดถึงตาย öldürecek şekilde 致命地 смертельно مہلکان...
8. The quality of causing death.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
9. The quality of being punishable by death
10. (especially in Roman Catholicism) a very serious sin, as a result of which the soul is damned for ever. onvergeeflike sonde الخَطيئَة المُميتَه смъртоносен грях pecado mortal smrtelný hřích die Todsünde dødssynd θανάσιμο αμάρτημα pecado mortal surmapatt گناه کبيره kuolemansynti péché mortelחטא गंभीर पाप smrtni grijeh halálos bűn dosa besar dauðasynd peccato mortale 大罪 대죄 mirtina nuodėmė nāves grēks dosa besar doodzondedødssynd grzech śmiertelny كبيره ګناه pecado mortal păcat de moarte смертны...
    especially
11. The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.
    countable, uncountable
12. Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).
    countable, uncountable
13. The quality of causing death
14. The quality or condition of being mortal.
15. The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate. Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster). The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time
16. The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
    countable, uncountable
17. Death.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
18. Mortals considered as a group; the human race.
19. Mortals collectively.
    archaic, countable, figuratively, uncountable
20. Death, especially of large numbers; heavy loss of life: the mortality wrought by an epidemic.
21. Death rate.
22. The rate of failure or loss: the high mortality among family-run farms.
23. the condition of being mortal
24. (Pathology) great loss of life, as in war or disaster

Equivalents

Examples

“[H]er minde remembreth her mortalitie, / vvhat ſo is fayreſt ſhall to earth returne.”

“Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, / But sad mortality o’er-sways their power, / How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, / Whose action is no stronger than a flower?”

“1714, Alexander Pope, letter to John Gay in Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, London, 1735, Volume 2, p. 208, 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.”

““[…] Thy sense is clogg’d with dull mortality; / They spirit fetter’d with the bond of clay: / Open thine eyes and see.””

“But on that onerous day [of the funeral], oppressed beyond relief, my own mortality was borne in upon me on sluggish tides of doom.”

“[…] actions of Charity do alleviate, as I may say, and take off from the Mortality of the Sin.”

“Hold therefore Angelo: / In our remoue, be thou at full, our selfe: / Mortallitie and Mercie in Vienna / Liue in thy tongue, and heart: Old Escalus / Though first in question, is thy secondary. / Take thy Commission.”

“1685, Thomas Willis, Tract of Fevers, Chapter 15, in The London Practice of Physick, London: Thomas Basset and William Crooke, p. 626, […] 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 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.”

“[…] the doctors stood aghast at the swift mortality among the untended sufferers […]”

“The Great Frost was, historians tell us, the most severe that has ever visited these islands. Birds froze in mid air and fell like stones to the ground. […] The mortality among sheep and cattle was enormous.”

“In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people.”

“Some of the objects of enquiry would be […] 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 […]”

“And, even in peace and at home, what was the sanitary condition of the Army? The mortality in the barracks was, she found, nearly double the mortality in civil life.”

“[…] a drought year brought conditions especially favorable to the beetle and the mortality of elms went up 1000 per cent.”

“By studying mortality rates and pollution statistics in 90 Chinese cities, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Israel and China discovered that air pollution from burning coal in north China, defined as above the Huai River, with a population of around 500 million people, was 55% higher than in the south.”

“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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