Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Mortal
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.
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