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Definition of Apace
1. Adverb. With rapid movements. "He works quickly"
Partainyms: Quick, Rapid, Speedy
Antonyms: Slowly
Definition of Apace
1. adv. With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily.
Definition of Apace
1. Adverb. Quickly, rapidly, with speed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apace
1. swiftly [adv] - See also: swiftly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apace
Literary usage of Apace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"1. fast, swift, quick, fleet (chiefly poetic or rhetorical), brisk, smart, lively,
speedy, raking (rare), apace (predicative); spec, spanking, electric (fig ..."
2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... Athenian«, nor will wo in a short apace of time rob of ite liberty a city
which Ici- now In vn inhabited seven hundred years ; but trusting to the ..."
3. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1813)
"... and not having ever felt fuch cold, for which they were totally unprovided
with cloaths, they died apace ; the Spaniards being better provided, ..."
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