immortal

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The part of them worthy of the name immortal, which is called divine and is the guiding principle of those who are willing to follow justice and you--of that divine part I will myself sow the seed, and having made a beginning, I will hand the work over to you.

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  1. adjective Not subject to death: immortal deities; the immortal soul.
  2. adjective Never to be forgotten; everlasting: immortal words.
  3. adjective Of or relating to immortality.

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  • He twisted his hat again and turned back to the little old lady You're immortal, and you're not really Miss Thompson, but Queen Elizabeth I?" —  That Sweet Little Old Lady
  • Robertson, in his first volume of Charles V.; Guizot in his "Civilisation Européenne;" Sismondi, in his "Essais sur les Sciences Sociales," and the last volume of his "Republiques Italiennes," have carried the philosophy of history to the highest perfection; but none of them thought of calling their immortal works "Philosophic Histories." —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
  • 'I don't suppose that old man is immortal, and I'm willing to stick to you for another twelve months Bell! —  The Bishop's Secret
  • But this simplicity was not immortal, and we hear sad complaints as the century grows old concerning the decadence of manners made manifest in the luxurious practice of dining as late as four or five, the freer use of wine, and other signs of over-civilization Sidenote: 1714--Lowland agriculture Glasgow, in the Clyde valley, ranked next to Edinburgh in importance among Scotch towns. —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)
  • Souls as immortal--or as mortal--as ours. —  The Return Of The Soul 1896
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French immortel, from Latin immortālis; see mer- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English immortal, inmortal = French immortel = Spanish inmortal = Portuguese immortal = Italian immortale, from Latin immortalis, inmortalis, undying, from in-privative + mortalis, liable to death, mortal: see mortal.
 

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/ɪˈmɔrtəl/
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