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Deadly   /dˈɛdli/   Listen
adjective
deadly  adj.  
1.
Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.
2.
Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies. "Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly."
3.
Subject to death; mortal. (Obs.) "The image of a deadly man."
Deadly nightshade (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under Nightshade.


adverb
deadly  adv.  
1.
In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death; deathly. "Deadly pale."
2.
In a manner to occasion death; mortally. "The groanings of a deadly wounded man."
3.
In an implacable manner; destructively.
4.
Extremely. (Obs.) "Deadly weary." "So deadly cunning a man."





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"Deadly" Quotes from Famous Books



... breathed in the valley of dry bones. The story of Samuel Morris and his unconscious mission, although authentic fact, belongs with the very romance of evangelism.[173:1] Whitefield and "One-eyed Robinson," and at last Samuel Davies, came to his aid. The deadly exclusiveness of the inert Virginia establishment was broken up, and the gospel had free course. The Presbyterian Church, which had at first been looked on as an exotic sect that might be tolerated out on the western ...
— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon
... face with her son as he let the tears down fall, and caressed him, saying, "Child, wherefore weepest thou, for what sorrow of heart? Hide it not, tell it to me; that I may know it as well as thou." Here the poet strikes the keynote of the character of Achilles, the deadly in war, the fierce in council, who weeps for his lost lady and his wounded honour, and cries for help to his mother, ...
— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang
... being loved. Why didn't you come to us with Madame Viardot and Tourgueneff? You like them, you admire them, you know that you are adored here, and you run away to be alone. Well, how about getting married? Being alone is odious, it is deadly, and it is cruel also for those who love you. All your letters are unhappy and grip my heart. Haven't you any woman whom you love or by whom you would be loved with pleasure? Take her to live with you. ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert
... I shall not be backward in the service of my king and my country," said Pepperell. "And all these men that are thinking merely of pleasure to-day I have no doubt will soon be deep in deadly work; for the war is coming upon us, we ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1 • Various
... Strassburg. After telling her that he had been to Holy Communion "to remind him of the sufferings and death of our Lord," he proceeds: "My intercourse with the religious people here is not quite hearty, though at first I did turn very heartily to them; but it seems as if it were not to be. They are so deadly dull when they begin that my natural vivacity cannot endure it." He goes on to say that he has made the acquaintance of one who is of a different way of thinking from these people—one "who from the coolness of blood with which he has always ...
— The Youth of Goethe • Peter Hume Brown


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