mortally

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːtəli/

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mortally (comparative more mortally, superlative most mortally)

1. Fatally; in such a way as to cause death. [from 14th c.]

   Coordinate terms: amortally, immortally

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

     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.'

2. (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 […]