eftsoons
Adverb
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Adverb
eftsoons (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Once again; another time. [11th-17th c.]
- (now, archaic) Soon after, presently. [from 13th c.]
- 1568, Erasmus Roterodamus; N. L., transl., A Modest Meane to Mariage, Pleasauntly set foorth, Henrie Denham:
- But wil you giue me leaue now eftsones a while to play the Sophister his part with you?
- RQ
- 1800, 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, (1800 edition and 1817 edition), third stanza:
- He holds him with his skinny hand,
- ‘There was a ship,’ quoth he.
- ‘Hold off ! unhand me, grey-beard loon !’
- Eftsoons his hand dropt he.
- 1913 Walt Mason, Rippling Rhymes
- ... but when the world is really wise—may that day come eftsoons!
- 1568, Erasmus Roterodamus; N. L., transl., A Modest Meane to Mariage, Pleasauntly set foorth, Henrie Denham:
- French: bientôt
- Russian: вско́ре
- Russian: сно́ва
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