• (British) IPA: /ˈpɹɛzəntli/

presently

1. (now British, rare) Immediately, at once; quickly. [from 14^thc.]
   • RQ
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Matthew 11:19 ↗:

     And presently the fig tree withered away.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     , Folio Society, 2006, Vol.1, p.219:

     the butler supposing the Wine had beene so carefully commended unto him for the goodnesse of it, imediately presented some unto the Pope, who whilest he was drinking, his sonne came in and never imagining his bottles had beene toucht, tooke the cup and pledged his father, so that the Pope died presently; and the sonne, after he had long time beene tormented with sicknesse, recovered to another worse fortune.

2. Before long; soon. [from 15^thc.]
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:

     It […] is the greatest example of lenity in our Saviour, when he desired of God forgiveness unto those, who having one day brought him into the City in triumph, did presently after, act all dishonour upon him, and nothing could be heard but, Crucifige, in their Courts.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.

   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p.55:

     ‘I shall presently be getting a call to tell me of that.’

3. At the present time; now; currently. [from 15^thc.]

   • The towns and forts you presently have.

   • 1891, The Welsh Review, No.1 (November 1891) ↗. "A Word to the Welsh People." p.1:

     To all of you, therefore, who call Wales your motherland, whether you presently inhabit some other portion of the globe or breathe the air of your cloud-kissed country […].

4. (obsolete) With actual presence; in actuality. [~1600]

   • His precious body and blood presently three.

• German: sogleich
• Russian: вско́ре