mortally
English
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From mortal + -ly.
Pronunciation
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Adverb
mortally (comparative more mortally, superlative most mortally)
- Fatally; in such a way as to cause death. [from 14th c.]
- The king was mortally wounded in the battle.
- (obsolete) As a mortal. [16th-17th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.1:
- And all the depth of rightfull doome was taught / By faire Astræa with great industrie, / Whilest here on earth she lived mortallie […]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.1:
Translations
lethally — see lethally
as a mortal