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Webster 1913 Edition
Mortally
Mor′tal-ly
,adv.
1.
In a mortal manner; so as to cause death;
as,
. mortally
wounded2.
In the manner of a mortal or of mortal beings.
I was
mortally
brought forth. Shakespeare
3.
In an extreme degree; to the point of dying or causing death; desperately;
as,
. mortally
jealousAdrian
mortally
envied poets, painters, and artificers, in works wherein he had a vein to excel. Bacon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mortally
MOR'TALLY
,adv.
1.
Extremely. Adrian mortally envied poets, painters and artificers, in works wherein he had a vein to excel.
Definition 2025
mortally
mortally
English
Adverb
mortally (comparative more mortally, superlative most mortally)
- Fatally; in such a way as to cause death. [from 14th c.]
- (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: