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eftsoons

[ eft-soonz ]

adverb

, Archaic.
  1. soon after.
  2. once again; anew.


eftsoons

/ ɛftˈsuːnz /

adverb

  1. soon afterwards
  2. repeatedly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of eftsoons1

First recorded before 1000; eft 2( def ) + soon ( def ) + -s 1( def )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of eftsoons1

Old English eft sōna, literally: afterwards soon
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Example Sentences

And since that time there hath followed continual course of war, while one eftsoons laboureth to put another out of his empire, and to set himself in.

He can neither speak nor go, nor yet take meat; he desireth help only by his infant crying: so that a man may, at the least way, by this conject, that this creature alone was born all to love and amity, which specially increaseth and is fast knit together by good turns done eftsoons of one to another.

Eftsoons were we in Whitechapel, breathing a murky atmosphere of naptha and fried fish, so all-pervading that, at the moment, the very thought of food seemed nauseous.

Then, being puffed up, he forgot yesterday's grudge, and discoursed me freely of beggars; and gave me, who eftsoons thought a beggar was a beggar, and there an end, the names and qualities of full thirty sorts of masterful and crafty mendicants in France and Germany, and England; his three provinces; for so the poor, proud knave yclept those kingdoms three; wherein his throne it was the stocks I ween.

"Alas, good archer, I did you one eftsoons, you and your pretty comrade," said Manon, humbly.

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