alamort

English

Alternative forms

• all amort (sometimes proscribed)

Etymology

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

Adverb

alamort (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) to the death; mortally

Adjective

alamort (not comparable)

1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)