Synonyms for memento mori

Grammar : Noun

Spell : muh-men-toh mawr-ahy, mohr-ahy, mawr-ee, mohr-ee; for 1 also Latin me-men-toh moh-ree

Phonetic Transcription : məˈmɛn toʊ ˈmɔr aɪ, ˈmoʊr aɪ, ˈmɔr i, ˈmoʊr i; for 1 also Latin mɛˈmɛn toʊ ˈmoʊ ri

Définition of memento mori

Origin : "reminder of death," 1590s, Latin, literally "remember that you must die."

noun reminder of death

Example sentences :

On the face of a rich man's heir is written the rich man's memento mori!
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

His memento mori was in his bed-chamber, and sat by him at his frugal meal.
Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier

With their legend "Memento Mori" they were simply reminders of Death in the abstract.
Extract from : « Jewellery » by H. Clifford Smith,

And the Memento Mori of later centuries had its raison d'être.
Extract from : « H. R. » by Edwin Lefevre

The place is too modern for memento mori and the hour-glass and the skull.
Extract from : « Certain Personal Matters » by H. G. Wells

Of the order of St. Paul, or memento mori, which died in France in the seventeenth century.
Extract from : « Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) » by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

There is a series of songs in his collection which might be respectively entitled 'Memento mori' and 'Memento vivere.'
Extract from : « The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century » by Leo Wiener

There is no memento mori here; rather a memento vivere; rich instincts call for much living.
Extract from : « Philosophy and The Social Problem » by Will Durant

Why, one might as well talk of a laughing death's-head,—the cachinnation of a monk's memento mori.
Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier

Royalty has always its memento mori, no doubt, but not always under the same forms.
Extract from : « Chaucer and His England » by G. G. Coulton

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