SPEEDILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does speedily mean? 

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

1. with speed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPEEDILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With speed

Synonyms:

apace; chop-chop; in short order; quickly; rapidly; speedily

Context example:

John got ready in short order

Pertainym:

speedy (accomplished rapidly and without delay)

 Context examples 

HER wisdom too limited the number of their servants to three; two maids and a man, with whom they were speedily provided from amongst those who had formed their establishment at Norland.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Aylward's words were speedily justified, for even as he spoke the two knights met in the centre of the lists.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You must answer it of course—and speedily.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

One fact we had very speedily discovered: The Indians would do nothing to help us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That is a detail which I shall speedily supply.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not a word passed between the sisters concerning Bingley; but Elizabeth went to bed in the happy belief that all must speedily be concluded, unless Mr. Darcy returned within the stated time.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It appeared first in a general dissatisfaction with everybody about her, while she remained in the rooms, which speedily brought on considerable weariness and a violent desire to go home.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"Dear me, I didn't know anyone was here!" stammered Jo, preparing to back out as speedily as she had bounced in.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The jibs I speedily doused and brought tumbling to the deck, but the main-sail was a harder matter.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)