immortality
[im-awr-tal-i-tee]
- immortal condition or quality; unending life.
- enduring fame.
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Origin of immortality
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Contemporary Examples
Did the screenwriters know they were dancing with immortality when they wrote these lines?
But, no matter how the Court decides, McCutcheon has already secured a certain share of immortality.
Meet Shaun McCutcheon, the Republican Activist Trying to Make History at the Supreme CourtBen Jacobs
October 8, 2013
Despite their differences, all these men seem to want the kind of immortality that comes from infamy.
Adam Gollner, author of The Book of Immortality, profiles five billionaires pouring money into longevity research.
The Immortality Financiers: The Billionaires Who Want to Live ForeverAdam Leith Gollner
August 20, 2013
Deng quickly decked the assailant, achieving her own bit of YouTube immortality.
Historical Examples
You live for immortality in this world; I live for immortality in another.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
Many volumes of poetry put in their claim to immortality every year.
The weak tenderness of his mother has cost the poor boy an immortality.
Tanglewood TalesNathaniel Hawthorne
The gods heard his prayer and took away his pain and his immortality.
Old Greek Folk Stories Told AnewJosephine Preston Peabody
But this immortality will have been purchased at the price of his immortal part.
Casanova's HomecomingArthur Schnitzler
Word Origin and History for immortality
n.
mid-14c., "deathlessness," from Old French immortalité (13c.) and directly from Latin immortalitatem (nominative immortalitas) "deathlessness, endless life," from immortalis (see immortal). Sense of "everlasting fame" is from 1530s.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper