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Sudden
Definitions
- 1 Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly.
"The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused."
- 2 Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid. obsolete
"Never was such a sudden scholar made."
- 3 Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate. obsolete
"I have no joy of this contract to-night: / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;"
- 1 happening without warning or in a short space of time wordnet
- 1 Suddenly. poetic
"Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered."
- 1 An unexpected occurrence; a surprise. obsolete
Etymology
From Middle English sodeyn, sodain, from Anglo-Norman sodein, from Old French sodain, subdain (“immediate, sudden”), from Vulgar Latin *subitānus (“sudden”), from Latin subitāneus (“sudden”), from subitus (“sudden", literally, "that which has come stealthily”), originally the past participle of subīre (“to come or go stealthily”), from sub (“under”) + īre (“go”). Doublet of subitaneous. Displaced native Old English fǣrlīċ.
From Middle English sodeyn, sodain, from Anglo-Norman sodein, from Old French sodain, subdain (“immediate, sudden”), from Vulgar Latin *subitānus (“sudden”), from Latin subitāneus (“sudden”), from subitus (“sudden", literally, "that which has come stealthily”), originally the past participle of subīre (“to come or go stealthily”), from sub (“under”) + īre (“go”). Doublet of subitaneous. Displaced native Old English fǣrlīċ.
From Middle English sodeyn, sodain, from Anglo-Norman sodein, from Old French sodain, subdain (“immediate, sudden”), from Vulgar Latin *subitānus (“sudden”), from Latin subitāneus (“sudden”), from subitus (“sudden", literally, "that which has come stealthily”), originally the past participle of subīre (“to come or go stealthily”), from sub (“under”) + īre (“go”). Doublet of subitaneous. Displaced native Old English fǣrlīċ.
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