Fatally

Adverb

 * 1) In a fatal manner; lethally.
 * 2) *1599: William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry V
 * 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;
 * 1) *1918: H. B. Irving, A Book of Remarkable Criminals
 * 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.
 * 1) Ultimately, with finality or irrevocability, moving towards the demise of something.
 * 2) *1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods
 * "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?
 * 1) Fatedly; according to the dictates of fate or doom.
 * 2) *1919: Booth Tarkington, The Flirt
 * 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

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