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soonly en · ADV

Etymology

From soon + -ly. Since the late 15th century.

Meanings

1. (dialectal, nonstandard, slang) Soon.
   • I will entreat you, to do what's possible to finish this everlasting separation, which will kill me soonly, if not ceasing. 2007, Willem Bilderdijk, Jan Bosch, M. van Hattum, Mr. W. Bilderdijk's briefwisseling, 1798-1806, page 155:
   • Dakota will soonly become one of them blissful married States. 1909, Wallace Irwin, “Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy”, in Collier's, volume 42, numbers 15-26, page xxiv:

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