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–adverb
1.
with the greatest possible speed or promptness:
to come to a friend's aid posthaste.
–noun
2.
Archaic
.
great haste.
Origin:
1530–40;
post
3
+
haste
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posthaste
[(
pohst
-
hayst
)]
Immediately, with great speed: “Get the flood warning to the media posthaste.”
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History
posthaste
1545, usually said to be from
"post haste"
instruction formerly written on letters (attested from 1538), from
post (3)
"system for sending mail" +
haste.
The verb
post
"to ride or travel with great speed" is recorded from 1558.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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