See mortality in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XIII”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature [A8], verso:",
"text": "[H]er minde remembreth her mortalitie, / vvhat ſo is fayreſt ſhall to earth returne.",
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"ref": "1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 65”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:",
"text": "Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, / But sad mortality o’er-sways their power, / How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, / Whose action is no stronger than a flower?",
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"text": "1714, Alexander Pope, letter to John Gay in Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, London, 1735, Volume 2, p. 208,\nI have been perpetually troubled with sickness of late, which has made me so melancholy that the Immortality of the Soul has been my constant Speculation, as the Mortality of my Body my constant Plague."
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"ref": "1829, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Timbuctoo”, in A Complete Collection of the English Poems Which Have Obtained the Chancellor’s Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge, Cambridge: Macmillan, published 1859, page 156:",
"text": "“[…] Thy sense is clogg’d with dull mortality; / They spirit fetter’d with the bond of clay: / Open thine eyes and see.”",
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"ref": "1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 2, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, page 157:",
"text": "But on that onerous day [of the funeral], oppressed beyond relief, my own mortality was borne in upon me on sluggish tides of doom.",
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"ref": "1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act II, page 28:",
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"ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
"text": "Hold therefore Angelo: / In our remoue, be thou at full, our selfe: / Mortallitie and Mercie in Vienna / Liue in thy tongue, and heart: Old Escalus / Though first in question, is thy secondary. / Take thy Commission.",
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"text": "1685, Thomas Willis, Tract of Fevers, Chapter 15, in The London Practice of Physick, London: Thomas Basset and William Crooke, p. 626,\n[…] the Fevers of Women in Child-bed; to wit, both the Lacteal, and that called Putrid, which, by reason of its Mortality, deserves to be call’d Malignant."
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"ref": "1722 March, H[enry] F[oe] [pseudonym; Daniel Defoe], A Journal of the Plague Year: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] Nutt […]; J. Roberts […]; A. Dodd […]; and J. Graves […], →OCLC, page 200:",
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"ref": "1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 9, in Ruth, volume 3, London: Chapman and Hall, page 242:",
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"ref": "1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:",
"text": "The Great Frost was, historians tell us, the most severe that has ever visited these islands. Birds froze in mid air and fell like stones to the ground. […] The mortality among sheep and cattle was enormous.",
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"ref": "1776 March 9, Adam Smith, chapter VIII, in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, book I (Of the Causes of Improvement in the Productive Powers of Labour, […]), page 97:",
"text": "In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people.",
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"ref": "1798, Thomas Malthus, chapter 2, in An Essay on the Principle of Population, London: J. Johnson, pages 32–33:",
"text": "Some of the objects of enquiry would be […] what was the comparative mortality among the children of the most distressed part of the community, and those who lived rather more at their ease […]",
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"ref": "1918 May 9, Lytton Strachey, “[Florence Nightingale.] Chapter X”, in Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon (Library of English Literature; LEL 11347), London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 146:",
"text": "And, even in peace and at home, what was the sanitary condition of the Army? The mortality in the barracks was, she found, nearly double the mortality in civil life.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 8, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 114:",
"text": "[…] a drought year brought conditions especially favorable to the beetle and the mortality of elms went up 1000 per cent.",
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"ref": "2013 July 9, Calum MacLeod, “In China, air pollution report brings despair, humor”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-07-10:",
"text": "By studying mortality rates and pollution statistics in 90 Chinese cities, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Israel and China discovered that air pollution from burning coal in north China, defined as above the Huai River, with a population of around 500 million people, was 55% higher than in the south.",
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 774-777:",
"text": "Why am I mockt with death, and length’nd out / To deathless pain? how gladly would I meet / Mortalitie my sentence, and be Earth / Insensible,",
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"ref": "1728, [John] Gay, The Beggar’s Opera. […], London: […] John Watts, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene xi, page 37:",
"text": "Learn to bear your Husband’s Death like a reasonable Woman. ’Tis not the fashion, now-a-days so much as to affect Sorrow upon these Occasions. No Woman would ever marry, if she had not the Chance of Mortality for a Release.",
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"ref": "1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter X, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 154:",
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"ref": "1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, chapter X, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 112:",
"text": "[…] the moldy odor of mortality hung wet in the air with the sulphurous fog […]",
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"ref": "1604, Michael Drayton, Moyses in a Map of His Miracles, London, Book 1, pp. 8-9:",
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"ref": "1614–1615, Homer, “The XXIII. Booke of Homers Odysses”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC, page 359:",
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "death rate",
"word": "mortalitas"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "death rate",
"word": "mortalità"
},
{
"alt": "しぼうりつ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shibōritsu",
"sense": "death rate",
"word": "死亡率"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "samangnyul",
"sense": "death rate",
"word": "사망률"
},
{
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "death rate",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Mortalitéit"
},
{
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "death rate",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Stierflechkeet"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "death rate",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "dødelighet"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "death rate",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dødsrate"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "death rate",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dødelegheit"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "death rate",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "døyelegheit"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "death rate",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dødsrate"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "death rate",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "śmiertelność"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "death rate",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "umieralność"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "death rate",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mortalidade"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "smértnostʹ",
"sense": "death rate",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сме́ртность"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "death rate",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mortalidad"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "death rate",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "dödlighet"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "smértnistʹ",
"sense": "death rate",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сме́ртність"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"mortality"
],
"word": "mortality"
}
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