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adverb
Soon  adv.  
1.
In a short time; shortly after any time specified or supposed; as, soon after sunrise. "Sooner said than done." "As soon as it might be." "She finished, and the subtle fiend his lore Soon learned."
2.
Without the usual delay; before any time supposed; early. "How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?"
3.
Promptly; quickly; easily. "Small lights are soon blown out, huge fires abide."
4.
Readily; willingly; in this sense used with would, or some other word expressing will. "I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles."
As soon as, or So soon as, immediately at or after another event. "As soon as he came nigh unto the camp... he saw the calf, and the dancing." See So... as, under So.
Soon at, as soon as; or, as soon as the time referred to arrives. (Obs.) "I shall be sent for soon at night."
Sooner or later, at some uncertain time in the future; as, he will discover his mistake sooner or later.
With the soonest, as soon as any; among the earliest; too soon. (Obs.)


adjective
Soon  adj.  Speedy; quick. (Obs.)





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... Findian and his disciples missionaries soon began to go out over Europe. To preach Christianity, yes; but distinctly as apostles of civilization as well. Columba left Ireland to found his college at Iona in 563; and from Iona, Aidan presently went into ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris
... to live according to another's rule fretted him beyond endurance. His experience in the matter was not fortunate. In 1483 his mother died of plague at Deventer, whither she had accompanied him. His father recalled him next year to Gouda, but died soon afterwards; and his guardians then sent him with his elder brother to a school kept by the Brethren of the Common Life at Hertogenbosch—doubtless to a Domus Pauperum for intending monks, such as Butzbach ...
— The Age of Erasmus - Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London • P. S. Allen
... As soon as the hound was working up the hill, the fox quietly went into the woods. I had been sitting in plain view only ten feet away, but I had the wind and kept still and the fox never knew that his life had for twenty minutes been in the power of the foe he ...
— Lobo, Rag and Vixen - Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen • Ernest Seton-Thompson
... there is to abolish the boundary between this ancient and invincible kingdom of Kent in which I write and that extremely inferior country, England, which was conquered by the Normans and brought under the feudal system. But so soon as these old traditions obstruct sound action, so soon as it is necessary to be rid of them, we must be prepared to sacrifice our archaeological emotions ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells
... her pillow. Mrs. Pryor found means to steal quietly from the room. She re-entered it soon after, apparently as composed as if she had really not overheard this ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte


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