Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: more – mortality
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more, adv. [see more, adj.]
- Greater; enhanced degree of; larger measure of.
- Again; further; additionally.
- To a greater degree.
more, n. [see more, adj.]
Extra; anything else; special effort; a greater amount.
morn (-s), n. [OE morgen; see morning, n.]
- Early hours of daylight; first part of the day; poetic shortening of the word “morning.”
- Daybreak; dawn; the beginning of the morning.
- [Fig.] first or early part of something.
- [Fig.] resurrection; renewal; rebirth.
- [Fig.] end of pain or darkness; relief.
morn'g, n. [see morning, n.]
morning, adj. [see morning, n.]
- Early; pertaining to the first part of the day.
- Phrase. “Morning Glory”: flowering plant with blossoms that bloom for only one day but are replaced with new blooms the next day; [fig.] new life; the resplendence of the resurrection.
morning (-s, -'s, morn, morn'g), n. [OE morgen.] (webplay: break of day, breakfast, day, dew, gown, life, light, noon, peace, publish, roses, star, sunrise).
- Resurrection; renewal; rebirth.
- Joy; end to grief and darkness; (see Psalm 30:5).
- Early hours of daylight; first part of the day.
- Sunshine; warm season; [fig.] youth; time of fresh creativity.
- Daybreak; dawn; time of sunrise.
- Time period; next day; [word play on “mourning”] grieving time; period of sorrow.
- Dawn; new day.
morsel, n. [OFr.]
Small meal.
mortal, adj. [OFr.]
- Subject to death.
- Pertaining to living human beings on earth, as opposed to a Heavenly state after death.
- Of or pertaining to death.
- Human; belonging to the flesh.
- Deadly.
- Extreme.
- Finite; describing a state of not being eternal.
mortal, n. [see mortal, adj.]
- Necessity of death upon the human body.
- Human being.
mortality, n. [Fr.]
- Pertaining to life on earth.
- Death.
- Nature of human kind.