alamort

adv, adj — 2 senses

adv

Etymology From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”). Compare amort.

Obsolete To the death; mortally.

adj

Etymology From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”). Compare amort.

Obsolete Half-dead; in a depressed condition; dejected.

How fares my Kate, what ſweeting all a-mort?c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 223, column 2:

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