post-haste
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See also: posthaste and post haste
Etymology
From the former instruction on letters "haste, post, haste," later reinterpreted as a compound of post + haste.
Pronunciation
Adverb
post-haste (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of posthaste
Synonyms
Noun
- A great hurry.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 103-106:
- And this, I take it,
Is the main motive of our preparations
The source of this our watch, and the chief head
Of this post-haste and rummage in the land.
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