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SPEEDILY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

With speed

Example:

John got ready in short order

Synonyms:

apace; chop-chop; in short order; quickly; rapidly; speedily

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

speedy (accomplished rapidly and without delay)

Credits

 Context examples: 

You won’t be able to slow it down or keep it at the pace it has been going, for Uranus will stay speedily direct until August 15.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Buck and his comrades looked upon them with disgust, and though he speedily taught them their places and what not to do, he could not teach them what to do.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But leave them I must, and that speedily, as I learned amidst the boisterous congratulations of my father and the tears of my mother.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the whole thing came to me in an instant, and I only needed certain corroborative proofs, which I speedily obtained.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And not only did it appear that he was expected, and speedily, but the Musgroves, in their warm gratitude for the kindness he had shewn poor Dick, and very high respect for his character, stamped as it was by poor Dick's having been six months under his care, and mentioning him in strong, though not perfectly well-spelt praise, as a fine dashing felow, only two perticular about the schoolmaster, were bent on introducing themselves, and seeking his acquaintance, as soon as they could hear of his arrival.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They hurried on, and were speedily at Randalls.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Sir William and Lady Lucas were speedily applied to for their consent; and it was bestowed with a most joyful alacrity.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I followed speedily, I hardly knew why; but when the man saw me draw near, he aimed a gun, which he carried, at my body and fired.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Something must speedily be resolved upon, and it occurred to us at last to go forth together and seek help in the neighbouring hamlet.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)