assoon

English

Adverb

assoon

1. Archaic spelling of as soon (as)....
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 23:16:

     And assoone as shee saw them with her eyes, she doted vpon them, and sent messengers vnto them into Caldea.

   • 1661, Thomas Salusbury, transl., Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems:

     It was placed there assoon as you began to look upon the Wall's small unevennesses.

2. (obsolete) As soon (as might be); immediately; forthwith.
   • 1340, Richard Rolle of Hampole, The Prick of Conscience:

     Thus shall end the dignity of Rome; and assoon after shall come the Antichrist.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “assoon”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.