English
Adverb
en-adv
- In a fatal manner; lethally.
#*1599: William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry V 1
#*:Witness our too much memorable shame
#*:When Cressy battle fatally was struck,
#*:And all our princes captiv'd by the hand
#*:Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;
#*1918: H. B. Irving, A Book of Remarkable Criminals 2
#*:He told Peace that he did not believe his statement that he had fired the pistol merely to frighten the constable; had not Robinson guarded his head with his arm he would have been wounded fatally, and Peace condemned to death.
- Ultimately, with finality or irrevocability, moving towards the demise of something.
#*1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods 3
#*:"They pretend," as I hear, "that the verses of Kabir have four different senses; illusion, spirit, intellect, and the exoteric doctrine of the Vedas;" but in this part of the world it is considered a ground for complaint if a man's writings admit of more than one interpretation. While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?
- fatedly|Fatedly; according to the dictates of fate or doom.
#*1919: Booth Tarkington, The Flirt 4
#*:He was a slender young man in hot black clothes; he wore the unfacaded collar fatally and unanimously adopted by all adam's-apple men of morals; he was washed, fair, flat-skulled, clean-minded, and industrious; and the only noise of any kind he ever made in the world was on Sunday.
Synonyms
mortally
Category:Death
es:fatally
ru:fatally
te:fatally
vi:fatally
zh:fatally
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