Both Uses of
mortal
in
The Hobbit
- Anyway they grew immensely rich and famous, and my grandfather was King under the Mountain again and treated with great reverence by the mortal men, who lived to the South, and were gradually spreading up the Running River as far as the valley overshadowed by the Mountain.
p. 22.7mortal = human (especially merely human)
- Even a fourteenth share was wealth exceedingly great, greater than that of many mortal kings.
p. 265.7 *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: a mortal wound) causing death
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(3)
(mortal as in: felt mortal agony) extreme or intense