amort
English
Etymology
From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”) reinterpreted as all amort.
Adjective
amort
- (archaic, literary) As if dead; depressed
- Synonyms: lifeless, spiritless, dejected
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- 1737, Susanna Centlivre, The Perjur’d Husband, London: W. Feales, Act IV, Scene 2, p. 56,[1]
- What, all amort, Signior, no Courage left?
- 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza VIII, page 87:
- The hallow'd hour was near at hand: she sighs / Amid the timbrels, and the throng'd resort / Of whisperers in anger, or in sport; / 'Mid looks of love, defiance, hate, and scorn, / Hoodwink'd with faery fancy; all amort, / Save to St. Agnes and her lambs unshorn, / And all the bliss to be before to-morrow morn.
- 1890, Francis Saltus Saltus, “The Harem” in Shadows and Ideals, Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton, p. 338,[2]
- Here repose houris, dreamlike fair;
- Eyes half amort by amorous care;
- Marvels of flesh, wonders of hair!