Immortal
[ɪ'mɔːt(ə)l] or [ɪ'mɔrtl]
Definition
(noun.) a person (such as an author) of enduring fame; 'Shakespeare is one of the immortals'.
(adj.) not subject to death .
Checker: Vernon--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance.
(a.) Connected with, or pertaining to immortability.
(a.) Destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding; exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame.
(a.) Great; excessive; grievous.
(n.) One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation.
Typed by Allan
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Undying, deathless, ever-living, imperishable, incorruptible, unfading, indestructible, enduring, never-dying.[2]. Eternal, everlasting, endless, perpetual, ceaseless, never-ending.
Typist: Perry
Definition
adj. exempt from death: imperishable: never to be forgotten (as a name poem &c.).—n. one who will never cease to exist: one of the forty members of the French Academy.—n. Immortalisā′tion.—v.t. Immor′talise to make immortal.—n. Immortal′ity condition or quality of being immortal: exemption from death or oblivion.—adv. Immor′tally.
Editor: Omar
Examples
- I hope my readers have now had enough of the immortal Wellington. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Are you not aware, I said, that the soul of man is immortal and imperishable? Plato. The Republic.
- I saw her laid low in her kindred vaults, And her immortal part with angels lives. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Did not an immortal physicist and interpreter of hieroglyphs write detestable verses? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And should an immortal being seriously think of this little space rather than of the whole? Plato. The Republic.
- Yet, even then, I have checked thick-coming fears with one thought; I would not fear death, for the emotions that linked us must be immortal. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Nevertheless, from the first writings onward a new sort of tradition, an enduring and immortal tradition, began in the minds of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were changes an immortal astronomer in Neptune, watching the earth from age to age, would have found almost imperceptible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is but one race of true and immortal humans on Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The bird in the air, and the beast in the field, each plays his part and passes to the great unknown, leaving no record; man himself is mortal, but his work is immortal. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He soon, however, withdrew from this extreme position and expressed his conviction of the existence of an immortal spirit apart from the body. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I hobbled out to my own room, and hobbled back with that immortal book. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His Lord knows where he lies, and will raise him up, immortal, to appear with him when he shall appear in his glory. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Such a Corsican wretch as that withstand the armies of Europe and the genius of the immortal Wellington! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But the soul which cannot be destroyed by an evil, whether inherent or external, must exist for ever, and if existing for ever, must be immortal? Plato. The Republic.
- One day, in much good company, I was asked by a person of quality, whether I had seen any of their _struldbrugs_, or immortals? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Why, then, should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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