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immortality (n.)
mid-14c., "deathlessness," from Old French
immortalité
(13c.) and directly from Latin
immortalitatem
(nominative
immortalitas
) "deathlessness, endless life," from
immortalis
(see
immortal
). Sense of "everlasting fame" is from 1530s.