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Webster 1828 Edition
Post-haste
POST-HASTE
,Noun.
POST-HASTE
,adv.
Definition 2024
post-haste
post-haste
See also: posthaste and post haste
English
Adverb
post-haste (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of posthaste
Synonyms
Noun
post-haste (uncountable)
- A great hurry.
- 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1 l 103-106
- "And this, I take it,
- Is the main motive of our preparations
- The source of this our watch, and the chief head
- Of this post-haste and rummage in the land."
- 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1 l 103-106