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à la mort

[a la mawr]

adjective

  1. mortally ill.

  2. melancholy; dispirited.



adverb

  1. grievously; fatally.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of à la mort1

Literally, “to the death”
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Example Sentences

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“Silence a la mort,” replied Laurie, with a melodramatic flourish, as he went away.

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Tronchin, the Protestant physician from Geneva, who attended him almost to the last, and who was so horrified at what he witnessed that he said, "Pour voir toutes les furies d'Oreste, il n'y avait qu'a se trouver a la mort de Voltaire."

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C’est qu’il faut penser à la mort, Tout vistement pliés bagage, Car il faut faire ce voyage.

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Les lxviii huictains ci-devant appellés la Danse Machabrey, par lesquels les Chrestiens de tous estats tout stimulés et invités de penser à la mort.

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In “De Chertablon, maniere de se bien preparer à la mort, &c.”

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