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[ME. a. F. immortalité (12–13th c. in Godef. Compl.), ad. L. immortālitās, f. immortālis immortal.]
1. The quality or condition of being immortal; exemption from death or annihilation; endless life or existence; eternity; perpetuity.
conditional immortality: see conditional A. 1.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxix. 10 Þat i may get þe state of immortalite. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 5 A story is..the memory of life..renewenge as thro immortalite thynges like to peresche. 1526Tindale 1 Cor. xv. 53 This mortall must put on immortalite. 1529More Dyaloge i. Wks. 156/1 When we..saye we shall dye..and tourne all to duste, we..nothing entende thereby to denye immortalite of our soule. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T., Matt. xxii. 31–2 The Sadducees denied..the immortality of the Soul, and all our life after this. 1719Watts Ps. cxlvi. i, My days of praise shall ne'er be past While..immortality endures. 1885Finlayson Biol. Relig., Etern. Life 86–7 The word ‘Immortality’ is often used..loosely. When we speak of ‘the immortality of the soul’, we sometimes simply emphasize the fact that the soul survives the death of the body; but, at other times, we mean that the soul is destined to exist..for ever.
attrib.1654Whitlock Zootomia 85 If you will believe them [quacks], you would take their Closets..to be Immortality Offices.
2. The condition of being celebrated through all time; enduring fame or remembrance.
1535Coverdale Wisd. viii. 13 By the meanes of her I shal optayne immortalite, and leaue behinde me an euer⁓lastinge memoriall. 1608Shakes. Per. iii. ii. 30 Virtue and cunning were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches..immortality attends the former, Making a man a god. 1800–24Campbell Lines on Poland 22 In Fate's defiance..Poland has won her immortality. 1866R. W. Dale Disc. Spec. Occ. viii. 252 Shakspeare's immortality is secure. |