assoon
English
Adverb
assoon
- Archaic spelling of as soon as..
- 1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- It was placed there assoon as you began to look upon the Wall's small unevennesses.
- 1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- (obsolete) As soon as might be; immediately; forthwith.
- 1340, Richard Rolle of Hampole, The Prick of Conscience
- Thus shall end the dignity of Rome; and assoon after shall come the Antichrist.
- 1340, Richard Rolle of Hampole, The Prick of Conscience
References
- “assoon” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.