amort
English
Etymology
From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”) reinterpreted as all amort.
Adjective
amort
- (archaic, literary) As if dead; depressed
- Synonyms: lifeless, spiritless, dejected
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 3,
- How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 3-5,
- How nowe fellowe Franticke, what all a mort? Doth this sadnes become thy madnes?
- 1737, Susanna Centlivre, The Perjur’d Husband, London: W. Feales, Act IV, Scene 2, p. 56,
- What, all amort, Signior, no Courage left?
- 1820, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: Taylor & Hessey, stanza VIII, p. 87,
- The hallow’d hour was near at hand: she sighs
- Amid the timbrels, and the throng’d resort
- Of whisperers in anger, or in sport;
- ’Mid looks of love, defiance, hate, and scorn,
- Hoodwink’d with faery fancy; all amort,
- Save to St. Agnes and her lambs unshorn,
- And all the bliss to be before to-morrow morn.
- 1890, Francis Saltus Saltus, “The Harem” in Shadows and Ideals, Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton, p. 338,
- Here repose houris, dreamlike fair;
- Eyes half amort by amorous care;
- Marvels of flesh, wonders of hair!
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