mortal
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈmɔrtəl/
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mortal
- What they don't understand is that death is for mortals, not for gods.
- mere mortals
- ordinary mortals
- mortals and immortals
Virtue elevates a person and places him above all that mortals hold dear.
- Virtue elevates a person and places him above all that mortals hold dear.
- And he says the anger of mortals ought to be mortal, right?
- But I also think that just for mortals, it's really important.
- And if you've thought about it for a minute, an italic V for mortals looks like a new.
- And he would beckon those before him, mortals made not as he to destruction from the womb.
- It just, you know it, unless you're in a very deeper rare state of meditation, for most of us mortals, it doesn't happen.
- You try to come as close as you can, but there's something that no mortal can do is replicate no blanks acting choices.
Examples
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We mortals are but shadows and dust.
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Every mortal must eventually confront the reality of death.
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Remember that you are mortal and one day we will die.
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You as a human being, as a mortal human being.
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Here on Earth for this poor mortal.
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This is the nature of mortal beings.
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A poster to remind you that you are mortal and one day you will die.
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But I also think that just for mortals, it's really important.
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Indeed, according to many scholars of the day, the heavens were unknowable to our feeble mortal minds.
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From this vantage point, Pauline looks down on the world of mortals and finds them stupid.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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5.3
An ordinary person with no special powers or status
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Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
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8.2
Very serious wrongdoing in Christian belief that stops God from forgiving you unless you say you are sorry
How Divine
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mortal comes from the Latin mortalis, from mors meaning 'death'. As a noun, a mortal is simply a human who will one day 'die', not a god or an immortal being.