immortality

[ im-awr-tal-i-tee ]

noun

Origin of immortality

1300–50; Middle English immortalite<Latin immortālitās.See immortal, -ity

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Heracles goes on his twelve labours, not to better mankind, but to achieve immortality and atone for his own sins.
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Did the screenwriters know they were dancing with immortality when they wrote these lines?
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This family of doctrines held that human beings had the potential to attain immortality through their own agency.
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At the age of 9, Daniel Radcliffe was catapulted towards Harry Potter and Hollywood immortality by a single, instinctive wink.
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But, no matter how the Court decides, McCutcheon has already secured a certain share of immortality.
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In a paroxysm of rage and fear, he gave the final order, and the Well of Cawnpore thereby attained its ghastly immortality.
The Red Year | Louis Tracy
Personal immortality is only to be desired if it insures the lifting of our faculties to their highest power of expression.
Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
By a noble metaphor, says Milman, the day of their death was considered that of their birth to immortality.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry Withrow
The insatiable thirst for that which is beyond and which veils life, is the most lively proof of our immortality.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile Gautier
She had not been endowed with the privilege of immortality with which God had invested our first parents in paradise.
Mary, Help of Christians | Various

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