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UK
/ɪmɔːtˈælɪti/
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[ US /ˌɪmɔɹˈtæɫɪti/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmɔɹˈtæɫɪti/ ]
NOUN
- perpetual life after death
- the quality or state of being immortal
How To Use immortality In A Sentence
- The fall in popularity of the death's head and the subsequent prevalence of the cherub was a reflection of the Great Awakening and the belief in the immortality of the soul: "Cherubs reflect a stress on resurrection, while death's heads emphasize the mortality of man. Headstones for Dummies, the New York Edition
- -- and that they lived in other worlds -- but there is no passage showing that they believed in what we call the immortality of the soul. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews
- They lived under nine independent caciques or chiefs, and possessed a simple religion devoid of rites and ceremonies, but with a belief in a supreme being, and the immortality of the soul.
- Some religions include a doctrine of personal immortality.
- Also, there is the mythological theme of the Monkey King, who has partaken of the Peach of Immortality.
- Mr. Ettinger's ideas, which he popularized in a 1963 book, "The Prospect of Immortality," spawned what some refer to as the cryonics movement, though by most accounts it is a small endeavor: a scattering of enterprises around the country with dues-paying customers totaling a few thousand, a few hundred of whom have actually been deep-frozen. NYT > Home Page
- They are certainly enough to give him immortality. Times, Sunday Times
- Of course you use the term immortality in a relative sense? The Blue Germ
- When fate marks you down for immortality you'd just better bite the bullet and lace your boots up tight.
- I seek the consulship, which is immortality—a prize worth fighting for, yes? Imperium