mortalness
English
Etymology
Noun
mortalness (uncountable)
- The quality of being mortal; mortality.
- 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
- […] therefore, to him, Isabel wholly soared out of the realms of mortalness, and for him became transfigured in the highest heaven of uncorrupted Love.
References
- “mortalness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.