immortality
IPA: ɪmɔrtˈæɫɪti
noun
- (religion, mythology, biology) The condition of being immortal.
- Never dying
- Being remembered forever
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Examples of "immortality" in Sentences
- The cause of the immortality is just unexplained.
- It describes the new arts and the immortality of the soul.
- "Of course you use the term immortality in a relative sense?
- The Selentites incidentally possess the secret of immortality.
- And is there not here the slow procession of birth, decay, and death, in that sublime order of growth which we call immortality?
- Island immortality is at stake, and history has proven that anyone can win it: teenage girls, dozing fishermen, complete amateurs.
- -- and that they lived in other worlds -- but there is no passage showing that they believed in what we call the immortality of the soul.
- When he sang I believed in immortality, my regard for the gods grew almost patronizing, and I devised ways and means whereby I surely could outwit them and their tricks.
- His relationship to it has changed utterly however; now that he's immortal he no longer quite belongs; his immortality is a tear in the fabric, a quirk that indicates a seam.
- It was then possible to leave behind us something more explicit than these severe, monotonous and lying epitaphs; and the thing left, the memory of a painted picture and what we call the immortality of a name, was hardly more desirable than mere oblivion.
- For since we have admitted, as a necessary and self-evident principle, that righteousness is the foundation of immortality, and Scripture presents to us in Abel an instance of the attainment of righteousness by faith, it follows that _faith is a means of partaking of immortality_.
- This faith in the survival of personality after death may for the sake of brevity be called a faith in immortality, though the term immortality is not strictly correct, since it seems to imply eternal duration, whereas the idea of eternity is hardly intelligible to many primitive peoples, who nevertheless firmly believe in the continued existence, for