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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
immortalise .
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Examples
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He brings out noble qualities in you, frames you in a myth, makes you godlike, immortalises you.
February 2004 2004
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He brings out noble qualities in you, frames you in a myth, makes you godlike, immortalises you.
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He brings out noble qualities in you, frames you in a myth, makes you godlike, immortalises you.
Archive 2004-02-01 2004
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It is a "spirit" which broods over many a song, but is incarnate, so to speak, in the elegy which immortalises the tomb of his lost friend.
Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan
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It is not the village which produces the Hampden, but the Hampden who immortalises the village.
Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897
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It is not the village which produces the Hampden, but the Hampden who immortalises the village.
Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880
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By gazing on its own exceeding light. fit him, like Ruskin's verdict, "What can you say of Carlyle but that he was born in the clouds and struck by the lightning?" which withers while it immortalises.
Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863
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"Generation immortalises the mortal, so for as it can be immortalised."
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West Indies, which kills the hugest tree, to become as huge a tree itself -- immortalises the great Clusius, Charles de l'Escluse, citizen of
Historical Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847
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It is this which inspires us with invincible perseverance, and heroic energies, while without it we should be the most inert and soulless of blocks, the shadows of what history records and poetry immortalises, and not men.
Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries 1831
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