instanter
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of instanter
1680–90; < Latin: urgently, insistently, equivalent to instan ( t- ) instant + -ter adv. suffix
Example Sentences
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Not every victim of a heart attack dies instanter.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Church Missionary Society in London cabled Consul Martin at Foochow to pay the ranson instanter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reserve Bank Governor Johannes Postmus told Premier Hertzog that something drastic must be done instanter.
From Time Magazine Archive
The alleged right to know has somehow and suddenly become a right that must be vindicated instanter.
From Time Magazine Archive
He congratulated me, and asked that we might remove ourselves there instanter so he could sleep without being roused by Irish balladry and ensigns lifting their shirts to compare back-hair.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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