forthwith
Adverb
Meaning
Immediately; without delay; directly.
As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object.
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If forgers and other malefactors are forthwith condemned to death by the secular authorities, there is much more reason for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death.
This is senseless cruelty. It must stop forthwith... I am told that people kill albinos and chop their body parts, including fingers, believing they can get rich when mining or fishing.
The more common report is that Remus mockingly jumped over the newly raised walls and was forthwith killed by the enraged Romulus, who exclaimed, "So shall it be henceforth with every one who leaps over my walls."
When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For.
It is not, however, to be imagined, that this free and open exposure of the gross errors in which the existing generation has been instructed, should be forthwith palatable to the world; it would be contrary to reason to form any such expectations.
Were the devil to come from hell to fight, there would forthwith be a frenchman to accept the challenge.