Fatally
['feɪtəlɪ]
Definition
(adv.) with fatal consequences or implications; 'he was fatally ill equipped for the climb'.
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Definition
(adv.) In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate.
(adv.) In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.
Edited by Karl
Examples
- And to what degree was her dread of a catastrophe intensified by the sense of being fatally involved in it? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- None of his duels ended fatally, but he faced them with great intrepidity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You consider me mistaken, and I consider you far more fatally mistaken. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I, so soon bored, so constantly, so fatally? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mary too was agitated; she was conscious that fatally, without will of her own, she had perhaps made a great difference to Fred's lot. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was as simple as this: fatally simple. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As an end-all and be-all of geographical knowledge it is fatally restricted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was a stumble on the threshold at starting--it was a flaw in the evidence which told fatally against us. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father fatally injured? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- She wished his warm, expressionless beauty did not so fatally put a spell on her, compel her and subjugate her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When a name was called, its owner stepped apart into a spot reserved for those who were announced as being thus fatally recorded. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Why not say, the circumstances have fatally misled me? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I am sure, beforehand, that (with all your experience) the circumstances have fatally misled you in this case. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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