mortality

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The state of being susceptible to death.

   “[H]er minde remembreth her mortalitie, / vvhat ſo is fayreſt ſhall to earth returne.”

2. isim The quality of being punishable by death.

   “[…] actions of Charity do alleviate, as I may say, and take off from the Mortality of the Sin.”

3. isim The quality of causing death.

   “Hold therefore Angelo: / In our remoue, be thou at full, our selfe: / Mortallitie and Mercie in Vienna / Liue in thy tongue, and heart: Old Escalus / Though first in question, is thy secondary. / Take thy Commission.”

4. isim Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).

   “[…] the Mortality was so great in the Yard or Alley, that there was no Body left to give Notice to the Buriers or Sextons, that there were any dead Bodies there to be bury’d.”

5. isim The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.

   “In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people.”

6. isim Death.

   “Why am I mockt with death, and length’nd out / To deathless pain? how gladly would I meet / Mortalitie my sentence, and be Earth / Insensible,”

7. isim Mortals collectively.

   “It is not fit Mortalitie should knowe / What his eternall prouidence decreed,”