immortification

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From im- +‎ mortification.

Noun[edit]

immortification (countable and uncountable, plural immortifications)

  1. (archaic) Failure to mortify the passions.
    • 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: [], London: [] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, [], →OCLC:
      immortification of spirit is the cause of all our secret and spiritual indispositions

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for immortification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)