amort

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adjective

As if dead; depressed

UncommonScrabble 7

Meanings

adjective
  1. 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 56
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    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 87

    Here 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 338

    Synonyms: lifeless, spiritless, dejected

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveAs if dead; depressed

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveutterly cast down

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Origin

  1. Middle Frenchà la mort“to the death”
  2. Englishamort

From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”) reinterpreted as all amort.

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