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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Ridgewell's can supply 200 silver table settings instanter.
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The Hillside development, for which ground was to be broken instanter, will provide 5,378 rooms for 1,581 families at an average of $11 per room per month.
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Next day he called in R. F. C.'s Jesse Jones, Undersecretary of the Treasury Acheson and Farm Credit Administration's Henry Morgenthau Jr. to discuss putting this new monetary policy into practice instanter.
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His Working Committee of Congress threatened nationwide civil disobedience if Britain did not grant home rule instanter.
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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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