What does "immortal" mean?
Immortal: For my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself Shak.
Additional senses
- 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.
- 5.One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation. Bunyan.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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