All 9 Uses

immortal
in
The Thief, by Turner
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The reign of Eddis supposedly arose out of one of the stories in which Hephestia rewarded a king named Hamiathes with a stone dipped in the water of immortality.†
Chpt 4 *

immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
When Eugenides was fifteen and Earth would have given him immortality, the Sky stopped her on her way.†
Chpt 5
He promised also not to harm Eugenides, but he said the Earth must not give him any more presents and never give immortality to any children but his children.†
Chpt 5
And Eugenides asked for a drink from the wellspring of immortality.†
Chpt 6
Thus the Sky made Eugenides immortal and yielded to Hephestia the power of his thunderbolts.†
Chpt 6
And when Eugenides stole the Sky God's thunderbolts and became immortal, Lyopidus's jealousy turned to hatred.†
Chpt 8
"You are immortal," he said to his brother, "but I will die."†
Chpt 8
"In the story the other night," I told Sophos, "when Hephestia rewarded Hamiathes at the end, she was supposed to have taken an ordinary stone from the river and dipped it in the water of immortality."†
Chpt 10

immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
I'd had enough of Hamiathes's Gift and its rumored powers to confer immortality.†
Chpt 12

Definitions:

(1) (immortal)
living or existing forever

or:

someone famous throughout history

or:

someone who will never die -- such as a mythological god
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely, "The Immortals" denotes a military corps of the Persian Empire. The Immortals were so-named because each time a member of the 10,000 man corps was killed or seriously wounded, he was replaced by another man. They are best remembered in western culture for their role in defeating the badly out-numbered Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae.