English Dictionary

mortality

/mɔɹˈtælɪti/

noun

The state of being susceptible to death. / (archaic) The quality of being punishable by death. / (archaic) The quality of causing death.

The mortality rate in the country has been steadily decreasing over the years.

意味（1）

The state of being susceptible to death.

[…] her minde remembreth her mortalitie,

[…] her minde remembreth her mortalitie, what so is fayrest shall to earth returne.

意味（2）

(archaic) The quality of being punishable by death.

[…] actions of Charity do alleviate, as I may say, and take off from the Mortality of the Sin.

意味（3）

(archaic) The quality of causing death.

[…] the Fevers of Women in Child-bed; to wit, both the Lacteal, and that called Putrid, which, by reason of its Mortality, deserves to be call’d Malignant.

意味（4）

Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).

[…] the Mortality was so great in the Yard or Alley, that there was no Body left to give Notice to the Buriers or Sextons, that there were any dead Bodies there to be bury’d.

意味（5）

(biology, ecology, demography, insurance) The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.

In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people.

意味（6）

(figuratively) Death.

Why am I mockt with death, and length’nd out

To deathless pain? how gladly would I meet

Mortalitie my sentence, and be Earth

Why am I mockt with death, and length’nd out To deathless pain? how gladly would I meet Mortalitie my sentence, and be Earth Insensible,

意味（7）

(figuratively, archaic) Mortals collectively.

It is not fit Mortalitie should knowe

It is not fit Mortalitie should knowe What his eternall prouidence decreed,