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Webster 1913 Edition
Apace
A-pace′
,adv.
With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily.
His dewy locks did drop with brine
apace
. Spenser.
A visible triumph of the gospel draw[GREEK] on
apace
. I. Taylor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Apace
APA'CE
,adv.
With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily; with haste; hastily; applied to things in motion or progression; as, birds fly apace; weeds grow apace.
Definition 2024
apace
apace
English
Adverb
apace (not comparable)
- Quickly, rapidly, with speed.
- Construction of the new offices is proceeding apace.
- 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Iuliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, Act III, scene 2, page 65:
- 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, The Germ; reprinted in Poems [Collection of British and American Authors; 1380], copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1873, OCLC 933409239, page 2, lines 19–24:
- (To one, it is ten years of years.
- ... Yet now, and in this place,
- Surely she leaned o'er me—her hair
- Fell all about my face. ...
- Nothing: the autumn fall of leaves.
- The whole year sets apace.)
- (To one, it is ten years of years.
- 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy, Collins, 1998, Chapter 1,
- Twilight was coming on apace and a star or two was already out, but the remains of the sunset could still be seen in the west.
Synonyms
Translations
Quickly, rapidly, with speed