forthwith🔊

(chiefly formal, literary, law) Without delay; immediately.

📑 Synonyms: forthwithal

💬 Quotations

Let ther be Light, said God, and forthwith Light, / Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, / Sprung from the Deep, [...]

John Milton, Paradise Lost

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.

John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come

The Thunder Child fired no gun, but simply drove full speed towards them. It was probably her not firing that enabled her to get so near the enemy as she did. They did not know what to make of her. One shell, and they would have sent her to the bottom forthwith with the Heat-Ray.

H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

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