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Shortly
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adverb (adv.)
1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon.
2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.