All 3 Uses of
mortality
in
Measure for Measure
- But I do bend my speech To one that can my part in him advertise; Hold, therefore, Angelo; In our remove be thou at full ourself: Mortality and mercy in Vienna Live in thy tongue and heart!†
Scene 1.1 *
- No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes.†
Scene 3.2
- A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep; careless, reckless, and fearless, of what's past, present, or to come; insensible of mortality and desperately mortal.†
Scene 4.2
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