mortal
subject to death
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,221 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,879 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- subject to death mortal beings
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death also: deadly the seven deadly sins
- unrelenting and deadly mortal enemy
- causing or capable of causing death also: deadly, deathly a fatal accidenta deadly enemy
noun
- a human being also: person, individual, someone, somebody, soul there was too much for one person to do
mortal in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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She was seized with a mortal terror.
The Emperor — Volume 02 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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It is his reaction to a deep and mortal hurt.
The City of Fire · Grace Livingston Hill · Chapter 1
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You simply want me to do impossibilities, and I am only mortal.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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What power has a poor mortal to conceal the truth from one so mighty?
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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A mortal paleness spread itself over his face, his strength failed him, and he sunk into a seat.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement — No. 474 · Various · Chapter 1