mortally

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in such a manner that death ensues, also in reference to hatred, jealousy, or fear

   They were mortally wounded in the car crash.

2. 2
   adv

   Fatally; in such a way as to cause death.

   Sir Philip Sidney, soldier, courtier, statesman and poet, was born at Penshurst in 1554. He won imperishable fame 32 years later at the Battle of Zutphen in Holland when, mortally wounded, he refused a drink of water and passed his flask to a wounded soldier, with the words: 'Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.'.

3. 3
   adv

   As a mortal.

   And all the depth of rightfull doome was taught / By faire Astræa with great industrie, / Whilest here on earth she lived mortallie […].

Common collocations

• mortally afraid Adverb + adjective

From Middle English mortally, equivalent to mortal + -ly.

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