amort
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 5
Definition of amort
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(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!”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”) reinterpreted as all amort.
Anagrams of amort
5 plays · some not in Scrabble
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