shortly.
In a short or brief time or manner; quickly.
Meaning & usage
In a short or brief time or manner; quickly.
In or after a short time; soon.
The past perfect progressive is used for actions and situations which had continued up to a past moment or shortly before it.
In few words.
Ideas are generally expressed more shortly in verse than in prose
In an irritable ("short") manner.
"Stop interrupting me, will ya?" she said shortly.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English schortly, schortliche, from Old English sċortlīċe (“shortly; before long; soon”), equivalent to short + -ly.
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