FORTHWITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forthwith mean? 

• FORTHWITH (adverb)
  The adverb FORTHWITH has 1 sense:

1. without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening

  Familiarity information: FORTHWITH used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORTHWITH (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening

Synonyms:

at once; directly; forthwith; immediately; instantly; like a shot; now; right away; straight off; straightaway

Context example:

Come here now!

 Context examples 

So the student sat himself down and waited a while; but the time hung heavy upon him, and he begged earnestly that he might ascend forthwith, for his thirst for knowledge was great.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In her turn, Helen Burns asked me to explain, and I proceeded forthwith to pour out, in my own way, the tale of my sufferings and resentments.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Brissenden half rose from his chair as he spoke, as if with the intention of departing to the restaurant forthwith.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“I really must sit down,” Maud said, with a nervous laugh and a dizzy gesture, and forthwith she sat down on the sand.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Forthwith there was heard a great buzzing in the air, and a swarm of black bees came flying toward her.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Yet, if for an instant he lay the cross aside, or if he fail to journey to Pitt's Deep, where it is ordered that he shall take ship to outland parts, or if he take not the first ship, or if until the ship be ready he walk not every day into the sea as far as his loins, then he becomes outlaw, and I shall forthwith dash out his brains.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As our client wishes the delivery made as soon as possible, we shall be obliged by your having teams ready at King's Cross at the time named and forthwith conveying the goods to destination.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If you will remember, some of the seed fell upon stony places, where there was not much earth, and forthwith they sprung up because they had no deepness of earth.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Martin was elated—so elated that when he recollected that The Hornet owed him fifteen dollars for "The Peri and the Pearl," he decided forthwith to go and collect it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So our poor wanderer went forth, and found all as the night-wind had said; and she plucked the eleventh rod, and smote the dragon, and the lion forthwith became a prince, and the dragon a princess again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)