Forthwith
adv ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Without delay; immediately. formal, literary, not-comparable
"Neyther euery thynge, whiche ony maner way is bredde or gendred of man: is forthwith a man (for els lyſe ſholde be called men) But that thynge, whiche is conceyued in the matrice or wombe of a woman, of the very ſubſtaunce of man: [...]"
- 1 without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening wordnet
Example
More examples"Mathematicians are like some Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different."
Etymology
From Middle English forth-with (“at once, immediately; at the same time, already; straight ahead”) [and other forms], partly from the phrase forth with (something), and partly from forth-with-al, furth-with-al (“at once, immediately; together with”) (whence forthwithal).
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