promptitude

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NOUN
  1. the characteristic of doing things without delay
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How To Use promptitude In A Sentence

  • AFLP (amplified fragment length polymorphism) is a new DNA molecular marker technique with high efficiency, promptitude, stability and accuracy.
  • Article 5 The principles of fairness, impartiality, promptitude and effectiveness shall be followed in legal aid.
  • A light-limbed, jolly-looking old fellow, in a barracan jacket and gaiters, with a smirk of welcome, and a very sharp, red nose, that seemed to promise good cheer, opened the door with a promptitude that indicated a hospitable expectation of my arrival. A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales
  • Cape Town honoured itself in honouring the veteran who, whatever his faults of judgment, had served the Colony single-heartedly to the utmost of his strength, who by his military genius and promptitude in action had conferred upon it in the past enormous benefits, and whose warmth of heart and loyalty of character had endeared him to all who had known him. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
  • So, although still of a twitter with amazement at Miss JESSIMINA'S announcement, I considered it the better part of valour to corroborate it with promptitude, rather than incur the shocking punches and kicks of numerous athletic young commercials; and, upon hearing the piece of good news, Mrs MANKLETOW exploded into lachrymation, saying that she was divested of narrow-minded racial colour prejudices, and had from the first regarded me as a beloved son. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
  • AFLP (amplified fragment length polymorphism) is a new DNA molecular marker technique with high efficiency, promptitude, stability and accuracy.
  • I make little reckoning of the man, or that his maintenance is burdenous and chargeable vnto mee, but that you might conceiue and vnderstand my good will and promptitude for the furtherance of this businesse, and that the authoritie and estimation which hee deserueth may be giuen him. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03
  • Small wonder then that the Indomitable's Captain, though in general a man of rapid decision, felt that circumspectness not less than promptitude was necessary. Billy Budd
  • So they keep insisting on their sympathy and their promptitude. Times, Sunday Times
  • But yet I would not haue you ignorant of this one thing, that I doe now part with Chanceler, not because I make little reckoning of the man, or that his maintenance is burdenous and chargeable vnto mee, but that you might conceiue and vnderstand my good will and promptitude for the furtherance of this businesse, and that the authoritie and estimation which hee deserueth may be giuen him. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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