rare. [f. LETHAL a. + -ITY. Cf. F. léthalité.] The condition or quality of being lethal; ability to cause death; deadliness; pl. (? nonce-use) lethal agencies.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Lethality, mortality, frailty.
1735. J. Atkins, Voy. Guinea (1737), 104. The certain Punishment being preferable to the doubtful Lethality of the Fetish.
1890. Sat. Rev., 22 Nov., 595/1. Why a person surnamed ‘Deathless’ … should have succumbed to such commonplace lethalities as a horse’s hoof and Prince Ivan’s club we know not.
