amort
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Lifeless; spiritless; depressed: usually in the phrase all amort.
Examples
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Stephen, greeting, then all amort, followed a lubber jester, a wellkempt head, newbarbered, out of the vaulted cell into a shattering daylight of no thought.
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Which verses, in a word, may have a spice and volupty, may have passion's cling and such like decency, so that they can incite with ticklings, I do not say boys, but bearded ones whose stiffened limbs amort lack pliancy in movement.
Note
This comes from the French 'a mort,' to death.
