MORTALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mortally mean? 

• MORTALLY (adverb)
  The adverb MORTALLY has 1 sense:

1. in such a manner that death ensues (also in reference to hatred, jealousy, fear, etc.)

  Familiarity information: MORTALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORTALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In such a manner that death ensues (also in reference to hatred, jealousy, fear, etc.)

Context example:

a being of whom the forest Indians are said to be mortally afraid, with a hoof shaped like the heel of a bottle

 Context examples 

He was mortally jealous of me, and persisted in barking at me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mortally: after all, it's tough work fagging away at a language with no master but a lexicon.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My father had once been a favourite of hers, I believe; but she was mortally affronted by his marriage, on the ground that my mother was “a wax doll”.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Aunt March went today, for which, oh, be joyful! said Jo. I was mortally afraid she'd ask me to go with her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I put down my muff on the stile, and went up to the tall steed; I endeavoured to catch the bridle, but it was a spirited thing, and would not let me come near its head; I made effort on effort, though in vain: meantime, I was mortally afraid of its trampling fore-feet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With that she rushed across the street so impetuously that she narrowly escaped annihilation from a passing truck, and precipitated herself into the arms of a stately old gentleman, who said, I beg pardon, ma'am, and looked mortally offended.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Here I walked about for a long time, feeling very strange, and mortally apprehensive of some one coming in and kidnapping me; for I believed in kidnappers, their exploits having frequently figured in Bessie's fireside chronicles.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)