All 5 Uses of
mortal
in
The Birthmark
- But, being what I find myself, methinks I am of all mortals the most fit to die.†
mortals = humans (especially merely humans) or people subject to death
- The fatal hand had grappled with the mystery of life, and was the bond by which an angelic spirit kept itself in union with a mortal frame.
*mortal = merely human
- By its aid I could apportion the lifetime of any mortal at whom you might point your finger.†
- The volume, rich with achievements that had won renown for its author, was yet as melancholy a record as ever mortal hand had penned.†
- Yet, had Alymer reached a profounder wisdom, he need not thus have flung away the happiness which would have woven his mortal life of the selfsame texture with the celestial.†
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
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)