Meaning of mortaldade | Babel Free

Definitions

mortality (death on a large scale)

feminine

Examples

“1352, A. López Carreira (ed.) Documentos do arquivo da catedral de Ourense (1289-1399), doc. 315”

the properties, vineyards, houses and farms, gardens and fields that are in the jurisdiction of this city of Ourense and around, and in the jurisdictions that are from the bishop and pay taxes to the bishop, became wasted and deserted, and go wild, and the men don't want to nor can work them because of the following reasons and many others which would take long to say: a reason is because the farmers and the men who had then as tenants died during the mortality and pestilence that happened during the year of 1348, so few were left for working the lands, as it is notorious all throughout the bishopric of Ourense

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