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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.

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