Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a half-dead or moribund condition; depressed; melancholy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective To the death; mortally.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb obsolete
to the death ;mortally
Etymologies
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French à la mort, to the death. Compare amort.
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Examples
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Once a term naturalized in English, alamort is now considered French and is rarely, if ever, used in Dryden's sense of ` melancholy. '
qms commented on the word alamort
The innocent pay simple court
Not knowing that love is blood sport.
Who enters those lists
Expecting sweet trysts
Soon finds they're engaged alamort.
June 4, 2016
alexz commented on the word alamort
Worst. Apple pie. Ever.
June 4, 2016
qms commented on the word alamort
Ha! Good one, alexz, although it took me a while to realize that I was not getting an extremely bad review.
June 4, 2016
alexz commented on the word alamort
I'm a bit hard of hearing, so I shouldn't be opening a cafe and serving apple pie.
June 5, 2016