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fatally

fatally (comparative more fatally, superlative most fatally)

1. In a fatal manner; lethally.
   • 1599: William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry V [1]

     Witness our too much memorable shame

     When Cressy battle fatally was struck,

     And all our princes captivd by the hand

     Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;

   • 1918: H. B. Irving, A Book of Remarkable Criminals [2]

     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.

2. Ultimately, with finality or irrevocability, moving towards the demise of something.
   • 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods [3]

     ""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 mans 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?

3. Fatedly; according to the dictates of fate or doom.
   • 1919: Booth Tarkington, The Flirt [4]

     He was a slender young man in hot black clothes; he wore the unfacaded collar fatally and unanimously adopted by all adams-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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