à la mort
Americanadjective
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mortally ill.
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melancholy; dispirited.
adverb
Etymology
Origin of à la mort
Literally, “to the death”
Example Sentences
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“Then I know them: à la vie et à la mort; is it not so?”
From The Red Symbol by John Ironside
"Amort" is said to be a corruption of à la mort.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Sleep is a morsel of death borrowed to keep up and renew the part of life which is exhausted by the day—le sommeil est un emprunt fait à la mort.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders
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