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# straightway

«straightway» in Mova's school dictionary: **at once, without any delay; it is the same as «straight…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (old use, in fairy tales)

### meaning for a pupil

Straightway means at once, without any delay; it is the same as «straight away». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/straightway/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales a magic act is followed straightway by its result; it is a formal, old word for «at once»

### examples

- They ate the apples and straightway became young. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/straightway/#x1)
- The king gave the order and straightway the guards came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/straightway/#x2)
- Go home straightway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/straightway/#x3)
- He begged them to sell him the incense straightway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/straightway/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [They saw, straightway they were amazed; they were affrighted, they hasted away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.786/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «straightway» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/straightway/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.