all-a-mort
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Adjective
all-a-mort (not comparable) (obsolete)
- Alternative form of alamort (“dejected”).
- 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?
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References
- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “All-a-mort”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.