swith
adverb
immediately; quickly.
swithe
-
a variation of
swith.
Example Sentences
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And he hæfde a swithe god wif & he heo leouede alse his lif.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
Quickly, 140, 682, 690; ful swithe, 2436, appears a pleonasm.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
He calde bothe arwe men, and kene Knithes, and serganz swithe sleie, Mo than an hundred.”—l.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
He sæde theah thæt thæt land sie swithe lang north thonan; ac hit is eall weste, buton on feawum stowum styccemælum wiciath Finnas, on huntothe on wintra, and on sumera on fiscathe be thære sæ.
From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen
He let him shrive swithe sone, To make his soule fair and cleue, To for our leuedi heven queen, That sche schuld for him be, To for her son in trinité.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Sir Walter Scott
