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Immediate

adjective

Of the present time and place.

Very close or connected in space or time. Synonym: contiguous. "Immediate contact" , "The immediate vicinity" , "The immediate past"

Having no intervening medium. Antonym: mediate.

Immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect. "The immediate cause of the trouble"

Performed with little or no delay. Synonyms: prompt, quick, straightaway. "A prompt reply" , "Was quick to respond" , "A straightaway denial"

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... indignant voice had the effect of partially checking the panic and restoring something like order,—the pushing and struggling for an immediate exit ceased,—the armed guards in shamed silence began to marshal themselves together in readiness to start on the search for the fugitive,—and several pages rushed in with flaring torches, which cast a wondrous fire- glow on the surging throng of eager and timid ...

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... command of language than he had believed. This discovery, however, did not in the least degree diminish his diligent preparation. Indeed, the only use that he made of the incident at the time it occurred was, to draw a lesson of dependence on God's own immediate blessing rather than on the satisfactory preparation made. "One thing always fills the cup of my consolation, that God may work by the meanest and poorest words, as well as by the most polished ...

— The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne • Andrew A. Bonar

... distance up the valley, at an angle where it turned westward. It stood on the left bank of the Warlock, at the foot of a small cliff that sheltered it from the north, while in front the stream came galloping down to it from the sunset. The immediate bank between the cottage and the water was rocky and dry, but the ground on which the cottage stood was soil washed from the hills. There Mr. Simon had a little garden for flowers and vegetables, with a summer seat in which he smoked his pipe of an evening—for, however inconsistent the habit ...

— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald

... for little boys and girls which sprung into immediate popularity. To know the six little Bunkers is to take them at once to your heart, they are so intensely human, so full of fun and cute sayings. Each story has a little plot of its own—one that can ...

— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store • Laura Lee Hope

... widow, whom he unfeelingly drove into the streets, followed in his path; the children stopped their games and hid until he passed. That repulsive character which haunts the evil-doers of society marked the aged banker as an object of dread and scorn to his immediate neighbors. ...

— Alvira: the Heroine of Vesuvius • A. J. O'Reilly

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