Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lifeless; spiritless; depressed: usually in the phrase all amort.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed.

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  • adjective As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective utterly cast down

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Examples

  • Lovesick [5369] Chaerea, when he came from Pamphila's house, and had not so good welcome as he did expect, was all amort, Parmeno meets him, quid tristis es?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  •     Or that inert that son's vigour, amort to delight,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     Or that inert that son's vigour, amort to delight,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Stephen, greeting, then all amort, followed a lubber jester, a wellkempt head, newbarbered, out of the vaulted cell into a shattering daylight of no thought.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Blanck and all amort sits the poore Cutler, and with such a pittifull countenance, as his neighbours did not a little admire his solemne alteration, and desirous to know the cause thereof, from point to point he discourseth the whole manner of the tragedie, neuer naming his new customer, but with such a farre fetcht sigh, as soule and body would have parted in sunder.

    The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking R. G.

  • Or that inert that son's vigour, amort to delight.

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • Stephen, greeting, then all amort, followed a lubber jester, a wellkempt head, newbarbered, out of the vaulted cell into a shattering daylight of no thought.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • [Not a good thing, but _a charity_.] [325] "What, sweeting, all amort" (_Taming of the Shrew_).

    A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

  • Which verses, in a word, may have a spice and volupty, may have passion's cling and such like decency, so that they can incite with ticklings, I do not say boys, but bearded ones whose stiffened limbs amort lack pliancy in movement.

    The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

  • Modern poets have given ‘amort’ a new life; it is used by Keats, by Bailey (_Festus_, xxx), and by Browning (_Sordello_, vi). ‘Bruit’ has been revived by Carlyle and Chas.

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

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  • This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day.

    November 11, 2009

  • Arithmetic simply won't support

    A happy ending for fans of sport.

    There's joy in the camp

    Of one lucky champ.

    The rest are silent and all amort.

    May 17, 2014