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speedily

Adverb

Meaning

In a speedy manner.

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We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. Robert Hall

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties. Vitruvius

It is in the irony of Providence that the more man comes to control the material world about him, the more does he lose control over the effects of his action; and it is when he is remaking the world most speedily that he knows least whither he is driving. Hilaire Belloc

What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love. Théophile Gautier

Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied. John Jay

Things hatched in discord are not speedily terminated. Latin Proverb

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