MORTAL'ITY, noun [Latin 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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