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straightway, adv.|ˈstreɪtweɪ|
[f. straight a. + way n.]
†1. By a direct course, straight from or to a place. Obs.
1461Paston Lett. II. 38 Item, sir, thys day cam on John Waynflet from the Kyng streyt weye. c1485Digby Myst. iii. 427 Serys, I abey your covnsell in eche degre; strytt waye þethyr woll I passe. 1486Bk. St. Albans d j b, Crepe softely towarde the fowle: from yowre hawke streght way. 1587Harrison England ii. vi. 167/2 in Holinshed, The merchant would haue thought that his soule should haue gone streightwaie to the diuell, if he should haue serued them with other than the best.
2. Immediately; without interval or delay; at once. Now only literary.
1526Tindale Matt. iv. 20 They strayght waye lefte there nettes. Ibid., John xxi. 3 They..entred into a shippe strayght waye. Ibid., Rom. ix. 7 Nether are they all children strayght way be cause they are the seede of Abraham. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 248 Whiche if he sought not to recompence by reuengement, then was he thought straightway a cowardly beast. 1666G. Harvey Morbus Angl. ix. (1672) 25 Grief protracted to some space of time, doth inevitably absorb the fleshy parts of the body, and strait-way hasten to a perfect Consumption. 1714Prior Viceroy 66 That he, O! Ciel, without trial, Straitway shou'd hanged be. 1786Har'st Rig xvi, This being done, they straughtway gang Into the barn. 1816Coleridge Statesm. Man. 18 But let the winds of passion swell, and straitway men begin to generalize. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxviii, She straightway sat down and indited a long letter. 1852Thackeray Esmond ii. vii, They dazzle him, so that the past becomes straightway dim to him. 1867Morley Burke 240 It is too commonly asserted, and straightway accepted, that the Revolution destroyed, but contributed nothing to the yet greater task of reconstruction. |