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mortal mind

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noun

Christian Science.
  1. the illusion that mind and life arise from matter and are subject to death.


Etymology

Origin of mortal mind

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

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But no man of mortal mind can know of everything that Washington is ready and willing to do for him.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Oh, you know—when you have millennia of memories in this mortal mind, it’s hard to remember terminologies all the time.”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

In the Bible allegory, or dream, the human, mortal mind names all its own material concepts.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

All material nature, in fact, is but the manifestation, or reflection, of this communal mortal mind.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

There was "no evil, except as a figment of mortal mind."

From My Little Sister by Robins, Elizabeth

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