Middle English Dictionary Entry
immortālitẹ̄ n.
Entry Info
| Forms | immortālitẹ̄ n. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The condition of being immortal, the state of immortality; also, the state of a happy immortality; lof of ~, bread from heaven; (b) the quality of enduring long, permanence.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Tim.6.16 : The blessid and aloone myȝty kyng of kingis..aloone hath immortalite [vr. vndeedlynesse; L immortalitatem].
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)26/16 : Þat bodi þat is sowen in corrupcioun schal rise wiþouten corrupcioun in þis chosen chirche at þe dai of doome, and þis dowery is clepid inmortalite or vndeedlines.
- a1425(a1396) Maidstone PPs. (Wht)766 : Lord..whanne þou hast maad us qwyte Thoru myȝt of inmortalyte, Þanne schalt þou be al oure delyte To se þi myȝtful magiste.
- a1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)1 Cor.15.53 : It byhouys..þis deadly body to cloþe immortalitee.
- c1440 PLAlex.(Thrn)43/16 : Oure goddez..takez vengeance of dedly men þat takes apon þam þe name of immortalitee.
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)2332 : Gramercy, lord, ful off goodnesse, Wych me a loof of immortalite Hast sent.
- c1450(a1400) Orolog.Sap.(Dc 114)365/20 : Alle þy lyfe and alle thy wirkynge be dressed and sette to þat ende þat þou haue a blessid obyte, so þat þou maye come atte þe laste to þe place of immortalite & euerlastynge felicite.
- c1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)70/3 : Þes wise philosophres..desirede endeles lif, þat is lif wiþ-out deeþ, þat clerkes clepeþ immortalite.
- c1450 De CMulieribus (Add 10304)260 : [Eve was] Induyde also with immortalyte.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)75/108 : The sefte is vndowteful hope of immortalyte.
- c1475 Regina celi qwene (Hrl 2251)9 : Harvest is com, I com to shere, The myrrour of Immortalitee.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)29.10 : Till the lord i sall crye and..praye That i may get the state of inmortalite.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)118/13 : This feste is callid tyme of Paske..anogogice, for Crist then passid fro deþ vnto lyf or ellis fro mortalite vnto inmortalite.
b
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.114 : Ȝoure noble inmortalite Of fame, of renoun, and of worthinesse Wiþ-ynne þe litel space of oo cuntre Ful streit compressed..esse.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.7 : A story is the testimony of tymes..renewenge as thro immortalite thynges like to peresche.