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- (chiefly formal, literary) Without delay; immediately.
1680, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: , 5th edition, Edinburgh: Iohn Cairns, , →OCLC, pages 114–115:So when morning was come, he goes to them in a ſurly manner as before, and perceiving them to be very ſore with the ſtripes that he had given them the day before; he told them, that ſince they were never like to come out of that place, their only way would be, forthwith to make an end of themſelves; either with Knife, Halter, or Poison: For why ſaid he, ſhould you chuſe life, ſeeing it is attended with ſo much bitterneſs.