All 8 Uses of
mortal
in
Frankenstein
- No mortal could support the horror of that countenance.
Chpt 5 (definition 1)mortal = person
- Tears, unrestrained, fell from my brother's eyes; a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame.
Chpt 7 (definition 2) *mortal = extreme
- I trembled with rage and horror, resolving to wait his approach and then close with him in mortal combat.
Chpt 10 (definition 3) *mortal = lethal (causing death)
- I was guiltless, but I had indeed drawn down a horrible curse upon my head, as mortal as that of crime.
Chpt 19 (definition 2)mortal = of great intensity
- Why had I not followed him and closed with him in mortal strife?
Chpt 20 (definition 3)mortal = lethal (causing death)
- That is my least concern; I am, by a course of strange events, become the most miserable of mortals.
Chpt 21 (definition 1)mortals = people
- I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the daemon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict.
Chpt 24 (definition 3)mortal = lethal (causing death)
- Suddenly the broad disk of the moon arose and shone full upon his ghastly and distorted shape as he fled with more than mortal speed.
Chpt 24 (definition 1) *mortal = human
Definitions:
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(1) (mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death
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(2) (mortal as in: felt mortal agony) extreme or intense
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(3) (mortal as in: a mortal wound) causing death