All 6 Uses
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- The Protestants went round telling good Catholics that if they gave up their faith and turned Protestant they'd get more soup than their bellies could hold and, God help us, some Catholics took the soup, and were ever after known as soupers and lost their immortal souls doomed to the deepest part of hell.†
Chpt 2
- And you, woman, if you go to the Quakers you'll lose your immortal soul and the souls of your children.†
Chpt 2 *
- The Posse will go to your house and tell your mother your immortal soul is in danger.†
Chpt 5
- He roars because he wants the world to know you're slipping away from the Confraternity and putting your immortal soul in danger.†
Chpt 5
- and sometimes Mr. McCaffrey gets into a state when boys linger in the lavatory interfering with themselves and wasting the valuable time for which Easons is paying them and on top of it putting their immortal souls in danger.†
Chpt 17
- He demands the names and address of the customers who are in danger of losing their immortal souls from reading articles on birth control.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(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.