deadlilyadv.
rare.
In a deadly manner; mortally, fatally; excessively; = deadly adv.
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the world > life > death > cause of death > [adverb]
deadlyc1050
deathlya1250
fellyc1330
mortallyc1390
à la mort?1536
deadlily1621
lethally1661
mortiferously1685
perishingly1698
deathfully1761
vitally1891
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > excessively
cruellyc1385
overa1400
fullc1400
parlouslyc1425
mortalc1440
perilousc1440
spitefulc1450
devilish1560
pestilently1567
spitefully1567
cruel1573
parlous1575
deadly1589
intolerable?1593
fellc1600
perditlya1632
excessively1634
devilishly1635
desperate1636
woundya1639
woundlya1644
desperately1653
wicked1663
killing1672
woundily1706
wounded1753
mortally1759
dreadful1762
intolerably1768
perishing1776
tremendously1776
terrifically1777
diabolically1792
woundedly1794
thundering1809
all-firedly1833
preponderously1835
painfully1839
deadlilya1843
severely1854
furiously1856
diabolish1858
fiendish1861
demonish1867
sinfully1869
fiendishly1879
thunderingly1885
only too1889
nightmarishly1891
God almighty1906
Christ almighty1945
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 116 Musing..how hee should so farre and deadlily fall out with himselfe.
1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 122 A young man, A Companion in the Duel, to the Earl..being deadlily pricked, thrust Loniguius thorow.
a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 2nd Ser. 257/2 Dull, dull—deadlily dull.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 312 They bit, as serpents, treacherously, deadlily.
1863 E. B. Pusey Lenten Serm. 4 Deadlily delusive to the soul.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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