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Webster 1913 Edition


Instanter


In-stan′ter

,
adv.
[L., vehemently, earnestly. See
Instant
,
Noun.
&
Adj.
]
Immediately; instantly; at once;
as, he left
instanter
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Instanter

INSTANT'ER

,
adv.
[L.] In law, immediately; at the present time; without delay.
The party was compelled to plead instanter.

Definition 2024


instanter

instanter

English

Adverb

instanter (not comparable)

  1. immediately; instantly; without delay
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.9:
      They lifted him onto the deck where he lay in his wet seersucker suit and his lemoncolored socks, leering walleyed up at the workers with the hook in his face like some gross water homunculus taken in trolling that the light of God's day had stricken dead instanter.
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
      I cleared my throat & bade all good morning, at which our amicable captain swore, 'You can better my morning, by b—ing off, instanter!'

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Latin

Adverb

īnstanter (comparable īnstantius, superlative īnstantissimē)

  1. urgently, insistently
  2. vehemently, violently

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