STRAIGHTWAY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a direct course

Example:

plunged straightway to the rocks below

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

At once

Example:

straightway the clouds began to scatter

Classified under:

Adverbs

Credits

Context examples:

Straightway my uncle began to question him about the sea service, and for the whole meal my father was telling him of the Nile and of the Toulon blockade, and the siege of Genoa, and all that he had seen and done.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And straightway that coarse, swollen woman became a queen—the grandest, haughtiest queen that you could dream of—and she turned upon us with such words of fire, such lightning eyes and sweeping of her white hand, that she held us spellbound in our chairs.