mortally
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English mortally, equivalent to mortal + -ly.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
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, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And all the depth of rightfull doome was taught / By faire Astræa with great industrie, / Whilest here on earth she lived mortallie […]
Translations[edit]
lethally — see lethally
as a mortal
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