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

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

Why, how now, Sophos? all amort? still languishing in love?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various

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

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

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