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单词 mortally
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mortallyadv.

Brit. /ˈmɔːtl̩i/, /ˈmɔːtəli/, U.S. /ˈmɔrdəli/
Forms: Middle English mortaily, Middle English mortali, Middle English mortalli, Middle English mortelly, Middle English– mortally, 1500s 1700s mortaly, 1500s–1600s mortallie; English regional 1800s mortilly, 1800s– mortly, 1900s– mottley; Scottish 1700s– mortally, 1800s mortallie; also Irish English 1900s– mortially.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mortal adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < mortal adj. + -ly suffix2. Compare Middle French, French mortellement (c1380; 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman and Old French as mortelment).
1. In such a manner that death ensues; so as to cause death. Also (with reference to fighting): †to the death, fiercely, furiously (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > cause of death > [adverb]
deadlyc1050
deathlya1250
fellyc1330
mortallyc1390
à la mort?1536
deadlily1621
lethally1661
mortiferously1685
perishingly1698
deathfully1761
vitally1891
c1390 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 406 This scorpion..Caste vnder this ful mortally [v.rr. mortali; mortall] to stynge.
c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 64 Þai fouȝten togeder mortaily.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 21374 And thogh they berke nat On A man, fful mortally they byten kan.
a1500 (c1435) J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree (Lansd.) (1931) 511 (MED) A-geyns deth..Whan that hir list mortally to assaile..ther may be no deffence.
1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 50 Aboue 400 dead bodies, besides 140 mortally wounded and almost torne in peces.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 10 The Enemy..strooke downe Some mortally, some slightly touch'd. View more context for this quotation
1700 J. Dryden Fables Ded. sig. Cv When you were not only dangerously, but in all appearance mortally wounded.
1798 Ld. Clare in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 422 None of the parties, however, are hurt mortally.
1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. 243 They left him mortally wounded.
1897 J. Conrad Nigger of ‘Narcissus’ v. 105 James Wait, as though wounded mortally, fell back on the pillow.
1944 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 21 July 1/8 Guam..will greatly strengthen Saipan's position as a base from which Japan can be mortally assaulted.
1985 O. Sacks Man who mistook Wife i. 3 Luria did, finally, write some of these papers, in the last months of his life, when mortally ill.
2. With reference to hatred, jealousy, fear, disquietude, offence, etc.: bitterly, grievously, intensely.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > intense emotion > [adverb]
deepa1000
inwardlya1000
inlyOE
mortallyc1390
deeplya1400
keena1400
keenlya1400
from the bottom of one's hearta1413
from (also fro) one's heart1477
profoundly1489
from the spleen?a1505
sensibly1577
with sense1578
smartlyc1580
soakingly1593
dearly1604
intimately1637
viscerally1637
exquisitely1678
sensitively1793
exaltedly1855
intensely1860
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bitterness > [adverb]
mortallyc1390
rancorously?c1663
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > bitterness > [adverb]
bitterlyc1000
hatelyOE
mortallyc1390
rancorously?c1663
c1390 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 313 He wol yow haten mortally [v.r. mortelly], certeyn.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. 3658 (MED) Euerich gan other mortali despise.
1554 Bp. Hooper in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1570) III. 1687/2 They hate it mortally, and of all thinges most detest Gods holy word.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 43 Adrian the Emperour, that mortally Enuied Poets, and Painters, and Artificers, in Works, wherein he had a veine to excell.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables xxxviii. 40 Who would have Imagin'd..that the want of a Cap, or a Cringe, should so Mortally Discompose him.
1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. liii In Holiday and Stapylton, my Ears..are mortally offended.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 16 Sept. (1948) I. 361 I hate these suppers mortally.
a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 127 She mortally hated Xanthus.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. v. 70 Mortally apprehensive of some one coming in and kidnapping me.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 104 Johnson was one of those persons who are mortally hated by their opponents.
1885 Manch. Examiner 13 June 5/3 The sober and well-to-do would be mortally offended.
1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 36 The non-existent young lady in fancy dress would be mortally offended by the suggestion that the place [sc. British Honduras] should be painted anything but red on the map.
1995 Guardian 1 Aug. ii. 3/1 He was mortally scared of heights and had never been near a craghead.
3. Theology. So as to be guilty of mortal sin; characteristic of mortal sin.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > kinds of sin > [adverb] > mortal
deadly?c1225
mortally1526
1526 Pylgrimage of Perfection (de Worde) f. 80v I graunt my selfe therin to have..offended mortally, commyttynge deedly synne and dampnable.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 142 For which they give this reason, that about that age [sc. seven] one begins to sin mortally.
1868 Catholic World Jan. 438 It is certain that men who have had faith and grace have afterwards sinned mortally.
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iv. 175 He had no temptations to sin mortally.
1994 W. E. May Introd. Moral Theol. (ed. 2) iv. 169 Murder, adultery, and the like..when freely chosen with adequate knowledge about what one is doing, are mortally sinful.
4. In the manner of mortals; as a mortal. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > [adverb]
manlikelya1530
humanly1594
mortally1609
human-like1700
microcosmically1864
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxi. 93 Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am no other then I appeare. View more context for this quotation
5. colloquial and regional. Extremely, exceedingly, terribly, greatly. (Cf. mortal adj. 7.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > excessively
cruellyc1385
overa1400
fullc1400
parlouslyc1425
mortalc1440
perilousc1440
spitefulc1450
devilish1560
pestilently1567
spitefully1567
cruel1573
parlous1575
deadly1589
intolerable?1593
fellc1600
perditlya1632
excessively1634
devilishly1635
desperate1636
woundya1639
woundlya1644
desperately1653
wicked1663
killing1672
woundily1706
wounded1753
mortally1759
dreadful1762
intolerably1768
perishing1776
tremendously1776
terrifically1777
diabolically1792
woundedly1794
thundering1809
all-firedly1833
preponderously1835
painfully1839
deadlilya1843
severely1854
furiously1856
diabolish1858
fiendish1861
demonish1867
sinfully1869
fiendishly1879
thunderingly1885
only too1889
nightmarishly1891
God almighty1906
Christ almighty1945
1759 Rec. Town Council Newburgh in A. Laing Lindores Abbey (1876) xxi. 275 Many become mortally drunk.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 55 His pupil; who seemed to be about the age of three-score, stooped mortally.
1789 A. Young Jrnl. 23 Dec. in Trav. France (1792) i. 258 The people are in general mortally ugly and dwarfish.
1831 J. W. Carlyle New Lett. (1903) I. 35 It was very stormy, and I was mortally sick the whole twenty four hours.
1887 R. L. Stevenson Treasure of Franchard vi, in Merry Men 280 With swollen eyes and looking mortally sheepish.
1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags 37 He was indeed mortally fond of her girdle-cakes.
1930 K. A. Porter Flowering Judas (1935) 64 Oh, I do mortally wish they would keep out of our business.
1958 H. Nemerov Mirrors & Windows 100 Those mortally awkward parodies.
1975 D. McC. Newell If Nothin' don't Happen 133 I mortally love to fish—just any kind of fishin'.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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