mortally

comparative more mortally · superlative most mortally

1. Fatally; in such a way as to cause death.First known use 14th c.

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   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.'

   1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 313

2. obsoleteAs a mortal.First known use 16th–17th c.

   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, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC