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Immediate   /ɪmˈidiət/   Listen
Immediate

adjective
1.
Of the present time and place.
2.
Very close or connected in space or time.  Synonym: contiguous.  "Immediate contact" , "The immediate vicinity" , "The immediate past"
3.
Having no intervening medium.
4.
Immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect.  "The immediate cause of the trouble"
5.
Performed with little or no delay.  Synonyms: prompt, quick, straightaway.  "A prompt reply" , "Was quick to respond" , "A straightaway denial"



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... was combing out her mistress's long light hair. A sudden application for admission, in itself an unusual event at that hour, brought Maude to the door, where Dona Juana, pale and excited, besought immediate ...
— The White Rose of Langley - A Story of the Olden Time • Emily Sarah Holt
... Yamen had a few days before explicitly promised the British minister that the contract should not be ratified without his having an opportunity of seeing it. As a penalty for this breach of faith, and as a set-off to the Franco-Belgian line, the British minister required the immediate grant of all the railway concessions for which British syndicates were then negotiating, and on terms not inferior to those granted to the Belgian line. In this way all the lines in the lower Yangtsze, as also the Shan-si Mining Companies' lines, were ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 - "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" • Various
... him a somewhat curious evening. No detective worth his salt will permit extraneous matters to thrust themselves between his mind and the immediate problem with which it should be occupied, and Creighton really had a very high sense of duty. When they had taken themselves out of the house and settled down in the cozy corner of the big veranda, he punctiliously strove to concentrate on a dagger and a notebook and a murder, but ever and anon, ...
— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston
... The immediate object of the publication of this text, with its interlinear translation, is however somewhat different; it was desired to give any who may have become interested in the subject, from the romances contained in the two volumes of this ...
— Heroic Romances of Ireland Volumes 1 and 2 Combined • A. H. Leahy
... immediately connected with the personal character of his valet, than with that of the monarch himself." Let the reflection not be deemed extravagant if I venture to add, that the habitual obedience of a devoted servant is a more immediate source of personal comfort than even the delightfulness of friendship and the tenderness of relatives—for these are but periodical; but the unbidden zeal of the domestic, intimate with our habits, and patient of ...
— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli


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