MORTAL'ITY, n. [L. mortalitas.] Subjection to death or the necessity of dying. When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality.1. Death. Gladly would I meet Mortality, my sentence.2. Frequency of death; actual death of great numbers of men or beasts; as a time of great mortality.3. Human nature. Take these tears, mortality's relief.4. Power of destruction. Mortality and mercy in Vienna, Live in thy tongue and heart.
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