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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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1996
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immortal XIV. — L.
immortālis, f.
IM-2 +
mortālis MORTAL.
So sb. XVII.
immortality XIV. — (O)F. — L.
immortelle everlasting flower. XIX. — F.
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Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Athens...collection of essays does for the theme of immortality what an earlier anthology, Fiction...theory, and Immortal Engines treats immortality as a mythical motif, as a scientific...
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October brings dreams of immortality -- for a while
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/5/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Could this be the October that baseball immortality finds its way back to Chicago? Immortal...as a lightning bolt But if there is immortality for professional baseball players...consciousness. Reggie Jackson found immortality in October, as did Don Larsen, Kirk...
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In Defense of Immortality.
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...question, "Do you believe in personal immortality?" James answered, "Never keenly...that the common arguments against immortality need not deter us. In his 1898 Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality, James set out with his usual relish...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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IMMORTALITY STRUGGLING TO REGAIN '92 FORM
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 6/11/1993; ; 547 words
; ...Bergen County, NJ) 06-11-1993 IMMORTALITY STRUGGLING TO REGAIN '92 FORM By MIKE...is a worried man with good reason. Immortality has not come back to her championship form. Immortality was virtually unbeatable last year...
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Eternity and the tired child: the voices in Emerson's "Immortality".
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; Abstract Emerson's late essay, "Immortality," has had a troubled textual history...and negative responses to the idea of immortality, and then resolves the conflict poetically...a radical redefinition of the term "immortality." Emerson's resolution is like the...
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Demi-gods and mortals Medical advances are opening up avenues to immortality. But not for everyone, and could we cope with the consequences?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/16/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...of course, the quest is for personal immortality. Yet if that can be achieved, though...existing people immortal and engineering immortality into future generations. To make you...programmed to regenerate, then this immortality would be passed on as the cells multiplied...
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IMMORTALITY LOOKS LIKE A LEGEND IN FILLY PACE
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 10/24/1992; ; 580 words
; ...Bergen County, NJ) 10-24-1992 IMMORTALITY LOOKS LIKE A LEGEND IN FILLY PACE By...BEACH, Fla. -- Although only 2, Immortality has been called the greatest filly pacer...backed up by results on the racetrack. Immortality put teeth in the lofty forecasts with...
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Immortality isn't all it's cracked up to be
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/26/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...breakthroughs - we heard the soothing news that immortality is finally within our grasp. If we...even if, for the sake of argument, immortality were technically possible, what would...agree with Schopenhauer that "to desire immortality is to desire the perpetuation of a great...
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Facing my immortality.(THE HOME FORUM)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 1/8/2008; 700+ words
; ...of her Maker. As you might imagine, immortality isn't the first thought that comes...understand more of my mother's and my immortality, to see through the veil of impending...was defining my mother's - and my - immortality as a genuine reality. Over a year ago...
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'Immortality' neither sci-fi nor thriller
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times (IL); 5/3/2009; ; 700+ words
; THE IMMORTALITY FACTOR By Ben Bova Tor, 480 pages...science-fiction author, but The Immortality Factor is not science fiction. With...political or medical thriller. But The Immortality Factor is not a thriller, either...
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Immortality and the Afterlife
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
IMMORTALITY AND THE AFTERLIFE. Modern thinkers often begin their discussions of immortality and the afterlife with Plato, (c. 428...Western philosophy. However, his view on immortality is not as straightforward as some take it...
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Immortality
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Immortality Psychical research is concerned primarily...religion. Many religions proclaim the immortality of the soul. Christianity speaks of...souls. In general Vedanta does not view immortality in terms of an achievement of individual...
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Immortality, Symbolic
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Immortality, Symbolic Among the numerous cultural mechanisms for...personal survival, there are more symbolic forms of immortality that exist. Collectively, there is the immortality obtained through assisting in the transmission of knowledge...
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immortality
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
immortality attribute of deathlessness ascribed to the soul in many religions and philosophies. Forthright belief in immortality of the body is rare. Immortality of the soul is a cardinal tenet of Islam and is held generally...
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conditional immortality
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
conditional immortality. The theory that immortality is not a necessary attribute of the soul as a separate entity from the body, but rather that it is bestowed on the whole being at the Last Day and is conditional on the believer's faith in...
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