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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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
His Working Committee of Congress threatened nationwide civil disobedience if Britain did not grant home rule instanter.
From Time Magazine Archive
At one point where their special train was going at only 5 m.p.h., the hose of the air brakes broke and stopped the train instanter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Herr Kerrl also offered to let the opposition nominate a majority of the members of the new German Christian Church directorate which he promised to appoint instanter.
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He was, in short, a favorite among our number instanter, and continues so.
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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