alamort
English
Alternative forms
- (sometimes proscribed) all amort
- all-a-mort
- à la mort
Etymology
From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”).[1] Compare amort.
Adverb
alamort (not comparable)
- (obsolete) To the death; mortally.[2]
Adjective
alamort (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Half-dead; in a depressed condition; dejected.[3]
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 223, column 2:
- How fares my Kate, what ſweeting all a-mort?
References
- ^ “à la mort, adv. and adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “alamort”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ Chambers 1903