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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