[ US /ˈfɔɹθˈwɪθ/ ]
[ UK /fˈɔːθwɪθ/ ]
ADVERB
  1. without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
    an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith
    Come here now!
    he answered immediately
    found an answer straightaway
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How To Use forthwith In A Sentence

  • Romoeuf, riding a franc etrier, on that old Herb-merchant's route, quickened during the last stages, has got to Varennes; where the Ten thousand now furiously demand, with fury of panic terror, that Royalty shall forthwith return Paris-ward, that there be not infinite bloodshed. The French Revolution
  • As they were talking, there came an eunuch from the Commander of the Faithful, in quest of Kut al-Kulub, for, when he knew that she was in the house of Ibn al-Kirnas, he could not endure the severance, but bade bring her forthwith. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • If a veterinarian - just as in the case of a doctor - is deemed to be highly incompetent or to have a mental or physical incapacity, he or she should be suspended forthwith.
  • Now that we have seen his response to the revelations, it is surely beyond dispute that he is a liability who must be removed forthwith.
  • Neither cost orders, which were made payable forthwith, have been paid.
  • It is clear that the Lincoln belongs to Yorkdale and should be returned to it forthwith.
  • Rajah Muda Hassim, being well aware of the state of things, sent, at this crisis, to order Si Tundo and his friend to his presence; which order they obeyed forthwith, and entered the balei, or audience-hall, which was full of their enemies. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
  • Roman prince asked of rabbi Jehosua ben Hanania, why the Jews 'God was compared to a lion; he made answer, he compared himself to no ordinary lion, but to one in the wood Ela, which, when he desired to see, the rabbin prayed to God he might, and forthwith the lion set forward. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • That being a miracle, the babu forthwith wrought another one, and within a minute King's one trunk was checked through to Delhi. In The Time Of Light
  • If any Chriftian went to any Corner of the Worlds how far fbever diftant, where there ware Chriftians; and i£ he was ihftru&ed with Commendatory Letters, by thofe from. whom he went* he was forthwith Admitted to Communion with thofe to whom he came. The Reasonableness of a Toleration: Enquir'd Into, Purely on Church ...
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