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Definition
immediately — (most typically seen in legal documents, formal use, or classic literature)
- Upon the same plea, he told me to bring my tools and clothing home forthwith.Chapter 11 (31% in)
- At this time, Anna,* my intended wife, came on; for I wrote to her immediately after my arrival at New York, (notwithstanding my homeless, houseless, and helpless condition,) informing her of my successful flight, and wishing her to come on forthwith.Chapter 11 (58% in)
- Upon receiving this certificate, and a five-dollar bill from Mr. Ruggles, I shouldered one part of our baggage, and Anna took up the other, and we set out forthwith to take passage on board of the steamboat John W. Richmond for Newport, on our way to New Bedford.Chapter 11 (61% in)
- I had but to mention the fact to Mr. Johnson, and he forthwith advanced the money.Chapter 11 (65% in)
There are no more uses of "forthwith" in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
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