immortality
AmericanEtymology
Origin of immortality
1300–50; Middle English immortalite < Latin immortālitās. See immortal, -ity
Example Sentences
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But his snowy path to immortality didn’t simply run through the fjords of Scandinavia.
A metaphor of L.A.’s past immortality and exploitation after World War II, the crime has fascinated novelists, filmmakers and countless true crime writers.
From Los Angeles Times
You’d think these toys would just accept their plastic immortality and find somewhere safe.
From Salon
“My Own Life,” Ms. Stalnaker argues, is far from being Hume’s pitch for literary immortality.
The event, advertised as “a conference for thoughtcrime,” had speakers discuss their most contrarian ideas, from time travel and aliens to immortality.
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