amort
adjective
spiritless; lifeless.
amort
1 American
[uh-mawrt]
/ əˈmɔrt /
adjective
Archaic.
amort.
2
American
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of amort
First recorded in 1580–90, amort is from French à mort “at (the point of ) death.” See a- 5, mort 1
Example Sentences
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Stephen, greeting, then all amort, followed a lubber jester, a wellkempt head, newbarbered, out of the vaulted cell into a shattering daylight of no thought.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
For soul and sense had waxed amort To wold and weald, to slade and stream; And all he heard was her soft word As one adream.
From Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses by Madison Julius Cawein
The old gentleman was all amort at this comparison, which must be obvious to every one.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
It shall kindle an icy thought to courage, 10 Not boy-fancies alone, but every frozen Flank immovable, all amort to pleasure.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
And all his soul did wax amort To stars, to hills, to slades, to streams, And it but held that sorceress fair As one of dreams.
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
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