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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

And the mortal mind is the opposite of that mind which is the eternal God.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

Is there infinite progression with man after the destruc- tion of mortal mind?

From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Eddy, Mary Baker

And so the communal mortal mind, so-called, determined these first lowly material and objective forms of existence.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

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