jan 1, 1669 - presently

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At the present time, immediately or promptly, meanings which it retained into the late seventeenth century. 1642 <i>take a branch of a willowe or saugh-tree and sticke it into the grownd, and it will take presently</i>, Elmswell (DW127); 1669 <i>he desired ... that they should hide the iron and bring no more to light at once then what they presentlie wrought</i>, Wickersley (QS1).

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