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[amort] n. (Lat. amor, love Lat. mort, death)
the double instinct of love and death; the [ambivalent] combination of Eros and [Thanatos] or the transformation of one into another; a cruel and (self)destructive passion that leads to the ruin of the loved or the lover.
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