apace
Pronunciation Adverb
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Pronunciation Adverb
apace (not comparable)
- Quickly, rapidly, with speed.
- Construction of the new offices is proceeding apace.
- 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, The Germ; reprinted in Poems [Collection of British and American Authors; 1380], copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1873, OCLC 933409239 ↗, page 2 ↗, lines 19–24:
- (To one, it is ten years of years.
- ... Yet now, and in this place,
- Surely she leaned o'er me—her hair
- Fell all about my face. ...
- Nothing: the autumn fall of leaves.
- The whole year sets apace.)
- (To one, it is ten years of years.
- 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy, Collins, 1998, Chapter 1,
- Twilight was coming on apace and a star or two was already out, but the remains of the sunset could still be seen in the west.
- French: rapidement, to proceed apace: aller bon train
- Russian: быстро
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