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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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"Immortal" Quotes from Famous Books

... comets—"here are the fireworks." Mr. Browne's drawings occasionally showed a tendency to approach the rudimentary sort of "pictograph" rather than give what a dramatic critic calls "a solid and studied rendering" of events. But many of Mr. Browne's illustrations of Dickens are immortal. They are closely bound up with our earliest and latest recollections of the work of the "incomparable Boz." Mr. Pickwick, we believe, was not wholly due to the fancy of Mr. Browne, but of the unfortunate Seymour, whom death prevented ...

— Lost Leaders • Andrew Lang

... "Blest as th'immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, Who sees and hears thee all the while, ...

— Tales and Novels, Vol. 6 • Maria Edgeworth

... birds shall bring you food, The bees their honey bring; And, thirsty, you the crystal drink Of an immortal spring. ...

— October Vagabonds • Richard Le Gallienne

... warmly; "a man passes away, but a people is renewed. This people, Monsieur, is gifted with an immortal energy, which nothing can destroy; its imagination often leads it astray, but superior reason will ever ultimately master ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... Christ brought with him, may be summed up in [Greek: gnosis kai zoe], or in the knowledge of immortal life.[158] To possess the perfect knowledge was, in wide circles, an expression for the sum ...

— History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack

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