amort

¹ American  

[uh-mawrt] / əˈmɔrt /

adjective

Archaic.

1. spiritless; lifeless.

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amort. ² American  

abbreviation

1. amortization.

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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

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 Ellis, Robinson

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 Cawein, Madison Julius

From a wood-hung height, an outpost lone,   Crowned with a woodman's fort, The sentinel looks on a land of dole,     Like Paran, all amort.

From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Melville, Herman

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 Cawein, Madison Julius

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 Joyce, James