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English
Adverb
eftsoones (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of eftsoons.
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Seunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: , London: Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, , →OCLC, folio 6, verso:Now ſtands the Brere like a Lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleaſaunce: / But all this glee had no continuaunce. / For eftſoones Winter gan to approche, / The bluſtring Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the ſolitarie Brere: / For nowe no ſuccour was ſeene him neere.