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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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
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
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
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
Why, how now, Sophos? all amort? still languishing in love?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
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