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Immortally

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im·mor·tal  (-môrtl)
adj.
1. Not subject to death: immortal deities; the immortal soul.
2. Never to be forgotten; everlasting: immortal words.
3. Of or relating to immortality.
4. Biology Capable of indefinite growth or division. Used of cells in culture.
n.
1. One not subject to death.
2. One whose fame is enduring.
[Middle English, from Old French immortel, from Latin immortlis; see mer- in Indo-European roots.]
im·mortal·ly adv.


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Here the Emperor sent his minister for Li Po, and here the great lyrist set her mortal beauty to glow from the scented, flower-haunted balustrade immortally through the twilights yet to come.
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Be the foregone evil what it might, how could they doubt that their earthly lives and future destinies were conjoined when they beheld at once the material union, and the spiritual idea, in whom they met, and were to dwell immortally together; thoughts like these -- and perhaps other thoughts, which they did not acknowledge or define -- threw an awe about the child as she came onward.
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