eftsoons
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eftsoons
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From eft (“again, after”) + soon + -s (“adverb suffix”) – both senses (“soon after”, “again”) derive from senses of eft, which is related to after. Compare modern English soon after.
adverb eftsones · eftsoon · eftsoones · eft sona
- Once again; another time. And every day, when the convent of this abbey hath eaten, the almoner let bear the relief to the garden, and he smiteth on the garden gate with a clicket of silver that he holdeth in his hand; and anon all the beasts of the hill and of diverse places of the garden come out a 3000, or a 4000; and the
- Soon after, presently. But wil you giue me leaue now eftsones a while to play the Sophister his part with you?
