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instanter

[ in-stan-ter ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

instanter

/ ɪnˈstæntə /

law without delay; (in connection with pleading) the same day or within 24 hours

1680–90; < Latin: urgently, insistently, equivalent to instan ( t- ) instant + -ter adv. suffix

C17: from Latin: urgently, from instans instant

The poor dandy showed a pair of straight coat-tails instanter, and the whole table joined in a "tremenjous" roar.

En shore enough when we got to Little Rock and Shako got holt of some sugarcane, he win that old elephant's respect instanter.

And so, turning from his interlocutor, he briefly but kindly recommended Lon to get back instanter to his concert.

I must therefore be furnished with Bibles instanter; send me therefore the London edition, bad as it is, say 500 copies.

By order of the king, the unfortunate wretch was strung up, instanter, without the veriest semblance of a trial!

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