Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DEAD'LY
DEAD'LY, adv. [ded'ly.]
- In a manner resembling death; as, deadly pale or wan. – Shak.
- Mortally. With groanings of a deadly wounded man. – Ezek. xxx.
- Implacably; destructively.
- In a vulgar or ludicrous sense, very; extremely; as, a deadly cunning man. – Arbuthnot.
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