mortally

Adverb

Meaning

In a mortal manner; so as to cause death; as, mortally wounded.

In the manner of a mortal or of mortal beings.

In an extreme degree; to the point of dying or causing death; desperately; as, mortally jealous.

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Examples

Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down! Emily Brontë

As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own. William Wallace

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound. Buffalo Bill

no evil is so worse than worst you fall in hate with love -human one mortally immortal i can turn immense all time's because to why. E. E. Cummings

And even the renowned king Arthur himself was mortally wounded; and being carried thence to the isle of Avallon to be cured of his wounds, he gave up the crown of Britain to his kinsman Constantine, the son of Cador, duke of Cornwall. Geoffrey of Monmouth

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance. Edward Everett

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