Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MOR'TAL-LY
MOR'TAL-LY, adv.
- Irrecoverably; in a manner that must cause death; as, mortally wounded. Dryden.
- Extremely. Adrian mortally envied poets, painters and artificers, in works wherein he had a vein to excel. Bacon.
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