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fatally

adverb

In a fatal manner; lethally.

- 1599: William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry V http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=487393672&tag=Shakespeare,+William,+1564-1616:+The+Life+of+King+Henry+V,+1599&query=+fatally&id=MobHen5
- :Witness our too much memorable shame
- :When Cressy battle 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 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=372961222&tag=Irving,+H.B.:+A+Book+of+Remarkable+Criminals,+1918&query=+fatally&id=IrvBook
- :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 , and Peace condemned to death.
  1. Ultimately, with finality or irrevocability, moving towards the demise of something.
- 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=619159980&textreg=1&query=+fatally&id=ThoWald
- :"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 ?
  1. fatedly, Fatedly; according to the dictates of fate or doom.
- 1919: Booth Tarkington, The Flirt http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=609876363&textreg=1&query=+fatally&id=TarFlir
- :He was a slender young man in hot black clothes; he wore the unfacaded collar 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.

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