All 13 Uses
forthwith
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Longfellow
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- Forthwith I comprehended, and was certain,
That this the sect was of the caitiff wretches
Hateful to God and to his enemies.†Canto 1.1-11 *forthwith = immediately - If anger be engrafted on ill-will,
They will come after us more merciless
Than dog upon the leveret which he seizes,"
I felt my hair stand all on end already
With terror, and stood backwardly intent,
When said I: "Master, if thou hidest not
Thyself and me forthwith, of Malebranche
I am in dread; we have them now behind us;
I so imagine them, I already feel them."†Canto 1.23-34 - And I, who had beforehand my reply
In readiness, forthwith began to speak:
"O soul, that down below there art concealed,
Romagna thine is not and never has been
Without war in the bosom of its tyrants;
But open war I none have left there now.†Canto 1.23-34 - But hitherward stretch out thy hand forthwith,
Open mine eyes;"—and open them I did not,
And to be rude to him was courtesy.†Canto 1.23-34 - "Love, that within my mind discourses with me,"
Forthwith began he so melodiously,
The melody within me still is sounding.†Canto 2.1-11 - so that the time may not be lost
By little love!" forthwith the others cried,
"For ardour in well-doing freshens grace!"†Canto 2.12-22 - "O love of the first lover, O divine,"
Said I forthwith, "whose speech inundates me
And warms me so, it more and more revives me,
My own affection is not so profound
As to suffice in rendering grace for grace;
Let Him, who sees and can, thereto respond.†Canto 3.1-11 - "The greatest of the valleys where the water
Expands itself," forthwith its words began,
"That sea excepted which the earth engarlands,
Between discordant shores against the sun
Extends so far, that it meridian makes
Where it was wont before to make the horizon.†Canto 3.1-11 - Paradiso: Canto XXV
If e'er it happen that the Poem Sacred,
To which both heaven and earth have set their hand,
So that it many a year hath made me lean,
O'ercome the cruelty that bars me out
From the fair sheepfold, where a lamb I slumbered,
An enemy to the wolves that war upon it,
With other voice forthwith, with other fleece
Poet will I return, and at my font
Baptismal will I take the laurel crown;
Because into the Faith that maketh known
All souls to God there entered I, and then
Peter for her sake thus my brow encircled.†Canto 3.23-33 - One, while he prattles still, observes the fasts,
Who, when his tongue is loosed, forthwith devours
Whatever food under whatever moon;
Another, while he prattles, loves and listens
Unto his mother, who when speech is perfect
Forthwith desires to see her in her grave.†Canto 3.23-33 - One, while he prattles still, observes the fasts,
Who, when his tongue is loosed, forthwith devours
Whatever food under whatever moon;
Another, while he prattles, loves and listens
Unto his mother, who when speech is perfect
Forthwith desires to see her in her grave.†Canto 3.23-33 - But since we have digressed abundantly,
Turn back thine eyes forthwith to the right path,
So that the way be shortened with the time.†Canto 3.23-33 - And even as the penthouse of mine eyelids
Drank of it, it forthwith appeared to me
Out of its length to be transformed to round.†Canto 3.23-33
Definitions:
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(1)
(forthwith) immediately -- (most typically seen in legal documents, formal use, or classic literature)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)