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adjective

Immortal adj.

Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance. "Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible." "For my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?"

Connected with, or pertaining to immortality. "I have immortal longings in me."

Destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding; exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame. "One of the few, immortal names, That were not born to die."

Great; excessive; grievous. (Obs.)

Immortal flowers, immortelles; everlastings.

Synonyms: Eternal; everlasting; never-ending; ceaseless; perpetual; continual; enduring; endless; imperishable; incorruptible; deathless; undying.

noun

Immortal n. One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation.

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Etymology of 'Immortal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Immortal" Quotes from Famous Books

... was an angel that lighted up that smile—that it was the immortal spirit, rising in sublime resignation above the vanity of health and earthly beauty, that beamed ...

— Jemmy Stubbins, or The Nailer Boy - Illustrations Of The Law Of Kindness • Unknown Author

... with a century. A man, whom nothing precedes and nothing follows, is born, lives, and dies in a longer or shorter time, which, relatively to eternity, hardly equals the duration of a lightning flash. A nation, on the contrary, is immortal." ...

— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... various religious sects, when compared with the conceptions of your Infinite and Eternal Existence in Spirit—your relation with The One—that conception of Infinite Wisdom, Being, and Bliss? When you grasp this truth, you will see that you are "in Eternity right Now," and are Immortal even this moment, as you have ...

— A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga • Yogi Ramacharaka

... beauty and grandeur in these weird old superstitions of good people; but, alas! the Rappites must soon pass away, as the Girlingites have expired in England, when Mother Girling could not be immortal. ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 - Volume 1, Number 2 • Various

... I am above them ... and I must be ... I know already what angel's hand will have helped me up the ladder. Beatrice, I vow to heaven, shall stand higher than Selvaggia, high and glorious and immortal as that name will be. You have given me joy and sorrow; for the worst of these (I will not say the least) I will confer on you all the generations of our Italy, all the ages of our world. But first (alas, from me you must not ...

— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor

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