amort

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5

Definition of amort

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic, literary)As if dead; depressed
    “How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?”
    “How nowe fellowe Franticke, what all a mort? Doth this sadnes become thy madnes?”
    “What, all amort, Signior, no Courage left?”
    “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.”
    “Here repose houris, dreamlike fair; Eyes half amort by amorous care; Marvels of flesh, wonders of hair!”

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Etymology

From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”) reinterpreted as all amort.

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