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/ɪmˈɔrtəlaɪz/ Listen

verb

Immortalize v. t. (past & past part. immortalized; pres. part. immortalizing)

To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.

To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame. "Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his guilty name."

Immortalize v. i. To become immortal. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Immortalize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Immortalize" Quotes from Famous Books

... its elixir, which after all turned out to be alcohol; and instead of being made immortal upon earth, he died drunk on the floor of a tavern. The like happens to many of us. We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into love-potions, which after all do not immortalize, butonly intoxicate us. By Heaven! we are all of ...

— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... him into looking a little more spruce, I can perceive that she is thoroughly proud of his originality and independence, and believes that he is even more likely than his conventional brother to distinguish himself and immortalize the family name. Josephine used to say, when the boys were little, that she hoped one of them would be a clergyman, and I know that she has more sympathy than I—and I have considerable—with a scheme of life which entertains starving in a garret for the sake of art or science ...

— The Opinions of a Philosopher • Robert Grant

... ambitious stuff she wrote to keep the cormorant and, incidentally, to immortalize herself, has fallen deservedly into oblivion. But we—some of us—do not forget and never want to forget Mary Russell Mitford. Her letters remain—the little friendly letters which came from her ...

— Afoot in England • W.H. Hudson

... gentleman then asked him which he thought was the best religion. "I know but one religion," he answered, "and that is hearty love of God and man. This is the only true religion; and I would to God our country was full of it. For it is the only spice to embalm and to immortalize our republic. Any politician can sketch out a fine theory of government, but what is to bind the people to the practice? Archimedes used to mourn that though his mechanic powers were irresistible, yet ...

— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems

... so large a part of his volume to immortalize his employments at school and college, we cannot possibly dismiss it without presenting the reader with a specimen of these ...

— The Life of Lord Byron • John Galt

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