Word of the Day:
mortally
What It Means
Fatally; in such a way as to cause death.
As a mortal.
Mortally in Context
“Sir Philip Sidney, soldier, courtier, statesman and poet, was born at Penshurst in 1554. He won imperishable fame 32 years later at the Battle of Zutphen in Holland when, mortally wounded, he refused a drink of water and passed his flask to a wounded soldier, with the words: 'Thy necessity is yet...”
Did You Know?
From Middle English mortally, equivalent to mortal + -ly.
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