adverb
definition
In prompt manner; both soon and quickly.
Examples of promptly in a Sentence
She answered promptly, "I will pay ten cents."
These discoveries were promptly recognized.
Jellicoe was promptly appointed commander-in-chief.
She promptly asked if he wanted a furnished or unfurnished apartment.
During the war of 1770 the Greeks had risen in an abortive rebellion, promptly crushed by the Turks.
The insurrectionists promptly disbanded.
The English commander promptly sent in a challenge to a pitched battle, which the king, in spite of the advice of his most trusted counsellors, accepted.
A movement to elect Mr Taft president of Yale University gained some strength in 1898-99, but was promptly checked by him, on the ground that the head of a great university should be primarily an educationalist.
This, however, was promptly countered by a monster meeting of protest at Zara on Nov.
He was at Warsaw when his master died in 1733, and he secured a hold on the confidence of the electoral prince, Frederick Augustus, who was at Dresden, by laying hands on the papers and jewels of the late ruler and bringing them promptly to his successor.
Fred was absolutely joyous when Dean presented him with the unprocessed fingerprint card and promptly tore it into pea-size pieces.
They ate breakfast and arrived at church promptly.
The abolition of slavery in 1888 caused much discontent among the planters and in the following year Minas Geraes promptly adhered to the declaration of the republic in Rio de Janeiro.
He started promptly upon the work of recovery.
Spohr, however, promptly discovered its merits, and produced it at Cassel some months later, with very favourable results.
Besides this his letters to Antonio Marini were published by Cesare Guasti at Prato in 1857; these were promptly put on the Index.
Dumouriez acted promptly.
After the coup d'Nat of Don Leopold O'Donnell in 1856, Sagasta had to go into exile in France, but promptly returned, to become the manager of the Progressist paper La Iberia, and to sit in the Cortes from 1859 to 1863.
Dusting with Paris green is, however, an efficient remedy if promptly applied at the outset of the attack.
He now became president of the Education Committee and promptly abolished the system which had had Robespierre's support.
Hanover and Hesse-Cassel, which were nearest to Prussia and therefore immediately dangerous, were dealt with promptly and without waiting for the decision in the main theatre of war.
Examine the fruitroom every week, removing promptly all decaying fruit.
Proofs should be returned promptly with the original copy-edited manuscript and query sheet.
The witness panicked and threw a small matchbox at the object, which promptly vanished in plain sight.
There is a possibility that a permanent tooth that has been knocked out can be re-implanted if handled promptly and correctly.
The women promptly voted him out of the game.
All the French settlements in India were promptly occupied.
For it is impossible to accept the theory of one writer that they sailed or rowed round the continent - a journey requiring enormous maritime skill, which, according to the theory, they must have promptly lost.
After the Treaty of Paris stability of government developed, and many important reforms were introduced under the strong government of the masterful Sir Thomas Maitland; he acted promptly, without seeking popularity or fearing the reverse, and he ultimately gained more real respect than any other governor, not excepting the marquess of Hastings, who was a brilliant and sympathetic administrator.
The Prussian cavalry promptly bore away to cover to the westward, and reported what they had seen to superior authority, but not to the advanced guard of the 5th infantry division, which, emerging in its turn from the defile, ran right against the deployed French infantry moving to meet them.
The water-supply of the town was promptly interrupted, but the river water was quite drinkable.
The advanced guard of the Allies under General (Lord) Cadogan promptly crossed the Scheldt and annihilated an outlying body of French troops, and Cadogan established himself on the ground he had won in front of the French centre.
William and Montecucculi joined forces in the electorate and promptly besieged Bonn.
Although it was a slave state, the majority of the people of Delaware opposed secession in 1861, and the legislature promptly answered President Lincoln's call to arms; yet, while 14,000 of the 40,000 males between the ages of fourteen and sixty served in the Union army, there were many sympathizers with the Confederacy in the southern part of the state.
A royal decree promptly banished them to Prussia, where they soon increased so rapidly as to be able to hold their own against the Lutherans.
The few southern states which had not yet seceded, refused their contingents and promptly joined the "rebels," but there was no hesitation in the people of the North, and the state troops volunteered in far greater numbers than had been demanded.
He was promptly "blown to the horn" at the Cross there as an outlaw, but escaped to Dundee, and commenced public preaching in the chief towns of central Scotland.
There was no certainty that the northerners would not respond promptly to the coup and place a Northerner in charge of the headless State.
In the interests of safety, failure to promptly obey marshaling directions may result in disqualification.
It did, but promptly closed because of problems with poorly applied tiles (perhaps they should have employed Polish plumbers ).
So we have certain atoms that fall apart and produce positrons, which are promptly annihilated by the first electron they meet.
The victim threw a punch at the youth, breaking one of his teeth, who promptly fled.
While in a suggestible condition, we place our orders freely and promptly.
If the offending substance is promptly identified and avoided, the chances of a rapid and complete recovery are excellent.
Meade was thus able to move promptly, Lee was compelled to meet him, and the Army of the Potomac began to take up its position on Pipe Creek, screened by Generals Reynolds and Buford at Gettysburg (q.v.).
But Thomas, his successor, was one of the greatest soldiers of the war, and Grant's three generals, all men of great ability, set to work promptly.
The new general, whose bold and skilful leading had been conspicuous on most of the Virginia battlefields, promptly did so.
After a trial before a special commission which was a parody of justice - the accused was not permitted to have any legal assistance or the use of writing materials - he was condemned to decapitation and promptly executed.
These murders were committed so promptly and secretly that it is doubtful whether the estates, actually in session at the same place, knew what had been done when, on the 26th of May, under violent pressure from Goran Persson, they signed a document declaring that all the accused gentlemen under detention had acted like traitors, and confirming all sentences already passed or that might be passed upon them.
For this reason he was censured at home and he promptly resigned, after spending only five months in the country.