Meanings
- archaicliteraryAs if dead; depressed
What, all amort, Signior, no Courage left?
1737, Susanna Centlivre, The Perjur’d Husband, London: W. Feales, act IV, scene 2, page 564 more examples
How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?
c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]How nowe fellowe Franticke, what all a mort? Doth this sadnes become thy madnes?
c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC, [lines 3-5]The hallow'd hour was near at hand: she sighs / Amid the timbrels, and the throng'd resort / Of whisperers in anger, or in sport; / 'Mid looks of love, defiance, hate, and scorn, / Hoodwink'd with faery fancy; all amort, / Save to St. Agnes and her lambs unshorn, / And all the bliss to be before to-morrow morn.
1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza VIII, page 87Here repose houris, dreamlike fair; Eyes half amort by amorous care; Marvels of flesh, wonders of hair!
1890, Francis Saltus Saltus, “The Harem”, in Shadows and Ideals, Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton, page 338Synonyms: lifeless, spiritless, dejected
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveAs if dead; depressed
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveutterly cast down
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Origin
- Middle Frenchà la mort“to the death”
- Englishamort
From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”) reinterpreted as all amort.
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