instanter
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of instanter
1680–90; < Latin: urgently, insistently, equivalent to instan ( t- ) instant + -ter adv. suffix
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As Mr. Hopson left that session one of Senator Black's servers thrust into his hands a subpena ordering him to appear instanter before the Senate Committee.
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Then he appealed to his father, who took him instanter to the District Attorney's office.
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That tipped it, of course, and instanter the troubadour was all but drowned out by a swarm of laughing, giggling flower children.
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The Church Missionary Society in London cabled Consul Martin at Foochow to pay the ranson 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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