Adverb
At present; at this time; now.
At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by.
With actual presence; actually .
Source: Webster's dictionaryIndoors or out, no one relaxes; In March, that month of wind and taxes, The wind will presently disappear, The taxes last us all the year. Ogden Nash
O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant? Epictetus
Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion. George Bernard Shaw
If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we f1nd new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit. James Freeman Clarke
Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time:. Thomas Hobbes
Chastise one that is worthless, and he will presently hate you. Spanish Proverb