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hastily

adv
/ˈheɪstɪli/

Etymology

From hasty + -ly.

  1. derived from *haifst✻ — “violence”
  2. derived from hastif
  3. inherited from hasty
  4. suffixed as hastily — “hasty + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a hasty manner

    In a hasty manner; quickly or hurriedly.

    • Eudemis moved hastily but as unobtrusively as he could through the gaping crowd[.]

  2. Soon, shortly.

    • she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hastily. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01hastily02hurriedly03hurried04hurry05rush06haste07dispatch

A definitional loop anchored at hastily. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at hastily

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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