All 5 Uses
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
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- However, he gave way to her representations, and they entered the furmity booth forthwith.†
Chpt 1 *forthwith = immediately
- "Ah, ma'am—well ye may say it!" responded the old woman, opening the sluices of her heart forthwith.†
Chpt 3
- She protected those cheeks forthwith, deeming spotlessness part of womanliness.†
Chpt 14
- A man following the same trade as Henchard, but on a very small scale, had sold his business to Farfrae, who was forthwith about to start as corn and hay merchant on his own account.†
Chpt 17
- She got a piece of paper, and bending over the fender wrote at his dictation words which he had evidently got by heart from some advertisement or other—words to the effect that she, the writer, hitherto known as Elizabeth-Jane Newson, was going to call herself Elizabeth-Jane Henchard forthwith.†
Chpt 19
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)