Both Uses of
mortality
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- The other problem raised by the same inquirer is scarcely less vital: infant mortality.†
Chpt 14 *
- that both natality and mortality, as well as all other phenomena of evolution, tidal movements, lunar phases, blood temperatures, diseases in general, everything, in fine, in nature's vast workshop from the extinction of some remote sun to the blossoming of one of the countless flowers which beautify our public parks is subject to a law of numeration as yet unascertained.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(mortality) the quality of being mortal (subject to death)
or:
death rate -- often given per 1,000 people per year