alsbald
German
Alternative forms
- (archaic) alsobald
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adverb
alsbald
- (archaic) at once, immediately
- 1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten[1] (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:
- Und Adam schrieb den Schwur mit seinem Blut hin, daß er dem Satan angehören wolle, er und alle seine Nachkommen bis auf den letzten.
Und alsbald fielen die sieben Schlangenköpfe von Kains Haupte ab.- And Adam wrote the oath in his own blood that he wished for himself and all his progeny down to the last one to belong to Satan.
And immediately the seven snakes' heads fell from Cain's head.
- And Adam wrote the oath in his own blood that he wished for himself and all his progeny down to the last one to belong to Satan.
- (literary, loosely) soon after, shortly
- 1980, Carl-Wolfgang Schümann, Der Berliner Dom im 19. Jahrhundert, Berlin: Mann, →ISBN, page 163:
- Nachdem erwogen war, alles dies alsbald öffentlich auszustellen, im November eine Kommission zur Beurteilung der Pläne zusammenszustellen.
- After resolving to display all this in public shortly, a commission to judge the plans was formed in November.