All 4 Uses
forthwith
in
Dante's Inferno -- 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
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)