memento mori
(italics)Latin. remember that you must die.
an object, as a skull, serving as a reminder of death or mortality.
Origin of memento mori
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How to use memento mori in a sentence
Still others have found the pandemic has served as an unwelcome memento mori, reminding people who have put aside personal or professional goals that they don’t have an infinite amount of time to get things done.
Quiz: Were these memorable quitting scenes real or from a movie? | Lila MacLellan | July 30, 2021 | QuartzIt would be novel, economical, and moral; a kind of memento mori—a death's head at the feast!
A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) | Frances Eleanor TrollopeThere is a series of songs in his collection which might be respectively entitled 'memento mori' and 'Memento vivere.'
Now, Nietzsche voiced the revolt of those temperaments whose ears were attuned rather to "Memento vivere" than "memento mori."
Modernities | Horace Barnett SamuelHis mighty body was left as a memento mori to the valiant bull who succeeded him in the affections of his widows and offspring.
American Big-Game Hunting | Various
The initials of her name, M. H. are smoked upon the ceiling as a kind of memento mori to the next inhabitant.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings | John Trusler
British Dictionary definitions for memento mori
/ (ˈmɔːriː) /
an object, such as a skull, intended to remind people of the inevitability of death
Origin of memento mori
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