alamort
English
Alternative forms
- all amort (sometimes proscribed)
Etymology
From French à la mort (“to the death”). Compare amort.
Adverb
alamort (not comparable)
- (obsolete) to the death; mortally
Adjective
alamort (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Half-dead; in a depressed condition; dejected.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 alamort in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)