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living or existing forever
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someone famous throughout history
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someone who will never die — such as a mythological god
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someone famous throughout history
or:
someone who will never die — such as a mythological god
- If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear.p. 303.4
- He'd done some of the key studies on mapping the proteonome when he was still a post-grad, and then he'd helped engineer the Methuselah Mouse as part of Operation Immortality.p. 22.2
- "What we're working on is immortality."p. 292.7
- I thought you were working on immortality.p. 303.4
- "Immortality," said Crake, "is a concept.p. 303.4
- Babies are immortal.p. 303.5
There are no more uses of "immortal" in Oryx and Crake.
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