Mortality
[mɔː'tælɪtɪ] or [mɔr'tæləti]
Definition
(n.) The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.
(n.) Human life; the life of a mortal being.
(n.) Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature.
(n.) Death; destruction.
(n.) The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Subjection to death, necessity of dying.[2]. Death, destruction, corruption.[3]. Frequency of death, number of deaths.[4]. Mankind, humanity, human nature.
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Examples
- But with the encreased mortality this intercourse declined and ceased. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The sense of disease and mortality, the insecurity and the unsatisfactoriness of all happiness, descended upon the mind of Gautama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Everybody else within the bills of mortality was hot; but the Patriarch was perfectly cool. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This flabby lump of mortality that we work so hard at with such patient perseverance, yields no sign of you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- How long, when I look on this matchless specimen of mortality, may I perceive that his thought answers mine? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Throughout all Europe there was as great a mortality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Accident and disease, however, are the inseparable concomitants of human existence, and suffering and pain the ineffaceable legacies of mortality. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Yet, stay for a while, O Power of goodness and strength; disdain not yet this rent shrine of fleshly mortality, O immortal Capability! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities, the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mortal souls, behold a new cycle of life and mortality. Plato. The Republic.
- Moulded in their Maker's image, the minutest spark of His spirit lifts them almost above mortality. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Growth and decay with all living things mark the immutable law of nature, and the inevitable fate of mortality. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- With summer and mortality grew our fears. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The effects of purifying cold were immediately felt; and the lists of mortality abroad were curtailed each week. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yet what more natural than famine, as I watched in this chamber of mortality, placed in a world of the dead, beside the lost hope of my life? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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