immediate
adjective
occurring or accomplished without delay; instant.
immediateness
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a word derived from
immediate.
Example Sentences
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Its opening stanza speaks the last word in immediateness of narration: "It felle abowght the Lamasse tyde, When husbands wynn ther haye, The dowghtye Dowglasse bowynd hym to ryde In England to take a praye."
From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Daniel Defoe
The ballad and narrative poem must be, by reason of their highly artificial form, comparatively short, possessing totality, immediateness, compression, verisimilitude, and finality.
From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Daniel Defoe
The transition from directness and immediateness to indirectness and mediation, along with the notions of space and time appropriated in the process, is in many ways reflected in the process of language constitution.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
It is this immediateness of impulse under which the human mind in its infancy strives to give utterance to its emotions that imparts to many of its outpourings the ring of monotheistic fervour.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
This awakened a sense of gratitude in my heart, which combined with the immediateness of our peril to fill my eye with tears.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
