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English citations of forthwith
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- (chiefly formal, literary) Without delay; immediately. [from early 14th c.]
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, →OCLC, page 129:
- Then Proclamation was made, that they that had ought to ſay for their Lord the King againſt the Priſoner at the Bar, ſhould forthwith appear and give in their evidence.
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, →OCLC, pages 135–136:
- Then ſaid Mr. Implacable, Might I have all the World given me, I could not be reconciled to him, therefore let us forthwith bring him in guilty of death: [...]
- 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.