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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Immortal \Im*mor"tal\, n. One who will never cease to be one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation. --Bunyan. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Immortal \Im*mor"tal\, a. [L. immortalis; pref. im- not + mortalis mortal: cf F. immortel. See {Mortal}, and cf {Immortelle}.] 1. Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance. Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible. --1 Tim. i. 17. For my soul, what can it do to that Being a thing immortal as itself? --Shak. 2. Connected with or pertaining to immortability I have immortal longings in me --Shak. 3. Destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding; exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as immortal fame. One of the few immortal names That were not born yo die. --Halleck. 4. Great; excessive; grievous. [Obs.] --Hayward. {Immortal flowers}, imortelles; everlastings. Syn: Eternal; everlasting; never-ending; ceaseless; perpetual; continual; enduring; endless; imperishable; incorruptible; deathless; undying. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: immortal adj : not subject to death [ant: {mortal}] n 1: a person (such as an author) of enduring fame; "Shakespeare is one of the immortals" 2: any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force [syn: {deity}, {divinity}, {god}]
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