amort

¹ American  

[uh-mawrt] / əˈmɔrt /

adjective

Archaic.

1. spiritless; lifeless.

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amort. ² American  

abbreviation

1. amortization.

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Etymology

Origin of amort

First recorded in 1580–90, amort is from French à mort “at (the point of ) death.” See a- ⁵, mort ¹

Example Sentences

Why, how now, Sophos? all amort? still languishing in love?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various

It shall kindle an icy thought to courage, 10 Not boy-fancies alone, but every frozen Flank immovable, all amort to pleasure.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson

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.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

For soul and sense had waxed amort To wold and weald, to slade and stream; And all he heard was her soft word As one adream.

From Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius

From a wood-hung height, an outpost lone,   Crowned with a woodman's fort, The sentinel looks on a land of dole,     Like Paran, all amort.

From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Melville, Herman