Immortality
[ɪmɔː'tælɪtɪ] or [,ɪmɔr'tæləti]
Definition
(noun.) the quality or state of being immortal.
(noun.) perpetual life after death.
Editor: Luke--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being immortal; exemption from death and annihilation; unending existance; as, the immortality of the soul.
(n.) Exemption from oblivion; perpetuity; as, the immortality of fame.
Typed by Garrett
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Exemption from death, endless life.[2]. Perpetuity, unlimited existence.[3]. Perpetual fame, exemption from oblivion.
Checker: Spenser
Examples
- Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Having while in Tyler's office heard them arguing on the immortality of the soul, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He induced the Convention to decree that France believed in a Supreme Being, and in that comforting doctrine, the immortality of the soul. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She is a type of immortality. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The religion of Gautama is flatly opposite to the immortality religions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The smallest human interest that the pure heart can feel is appointed to immortality. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The second is the desire for personal immortality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Christianity also was a doctrine of immortality and salvation, and it too spread at first chiefly among the lowly and unhappy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The argument for immortality seems to rest on the absolute dualism of soul and body. Plato. The Republic.
- There is immortality only in Issus, she replied. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- These partake of the breath of life, and in their immortality are of kin to the soul. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is a great stupidity or thoughtlessness not to perceive that the happiness of rational creatures is inseparably connected with immortality. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Balfour has rec ently based an argument for the immortality of the soul. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Have faith in the immortality of the soul, which no pain, no mortal disease, can assail or touch! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Like the Isis religion, it promised immortality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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