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  • noun Plural form of immortal.

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Examples

  • That the fantastic status of these immortals is not in question means they're not quite liminal in the way that term is used in the ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FANTASY; but I think it's apt in this context.

    Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008

  • That the fantastic status of these immortals is not in question means they're not quite liminal in the way that term is used in the ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FANTASY; but I think it's apt in this context.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • And while he must vanish from the scene, those twin immortals, his Nazi steel advisers and the Ruhr steel barons, go on forever.

    Britain Versus Europe—The Schuman Plan and German Revival 1950

  • While others in the Order called the immortals miscreats, short for miscreations, Declan often used the term detrus, the coarsest word they had for them.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • In “Highlander 2,” it turns out that the immortals are all from a distant planet that neither of them can remember and that MacLeod was not the one who won the prize and, in fact, there are other immortals about ready to fight MacLeod to win it.

    Top 10 Worst Sequels » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • While others in the Order called the immortals miscreats, short for miscreations, Declan often used the term detrus, the coarsest word they had for them.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • Sure they would, and one of them is Perseus "Percy" Jackson, whose discover of his parenthood and of a conspiracy against the immortals is the story that unfolds in The Lightning Thief.

    Archive 2007-01-21 Bill Crider 2007

  • Sure they would, and one of them is Perseus "Percy" Jackson, whose discover of his parenthood and of a conspiracy against the immortals is the story that unfolds in The Lightning Thief.

    The Lightning Thief -- Rick Riordan Bill Crider 2007

  • We are called immortals only because we do not age.

    The Last of the Wilds Canavan, Trudi 2006

  • She had always thought that one of the attributes of the immortals was their changelessness.

    Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999

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