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posthaste

adv
/ˌpəʊstˈheɪst/UK/ˌpoʊstˈheɪst/US

Etymology

From the former instruction on letters ‘haste, post, haste’, later reinterpreted as a compound of post + haste.

  1. derived from *ḱeyp-✻
  2. inherited from *haifstiz✻
  3. derived from *haifsti✻ — “violence”
  4. derived from haste
  5. inherited from hast
  6. inherited from hasten
  7. compounded as posthaste — “post + haste”

Definitions

  1. Quickly, as fast as someone travelling post

    Quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed.

    • It is imperative that you finish your task posthaste.
    • "Sasi cannot last through the night." These words from his physician, and the spectacle of my friend, now reduced almost to a skeleton, sent me posthaste to Serampore.

  2. Alternative spelling of post-haste.

    • "And this, I take it, Is the main motive of our preparations The source of this our watch, and the chief head Of this post-haste and rummage in the land."

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA