| 释义 |
† ˈmortalness Obs.
[f. mortal a. + -ness.]
The quality of being mortal (in various senses).
1530Palsgr. 246/2 Mortalnesse, mortalité. 1591Savile Tacitus, Hist. i. [c. 79] 44 In the one place the mortalnesse, in the other the misery of their woundes wasted them all. 1638Bp. Reynolds Medit. Last Supper xv. Wks. (1658) 623 Though we are not perfectly cleansed from the soil [of sin], yet are we soundly healed from the mortalness and bruises of it. 1659Gentl. Calling v. §16 Those edgeless weapons may vie with the keenest for the mortalness of their effects. |