Meanings
adverbsoonly (comparative more soonly, superlative most soonly)
comparative more soonly · superlative most soonly
- dialectalnonstandardslangSoon.
Dakota will soonly become one of them blissful married States.
1909, Wallace Irwin, “Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy”, in Collier's, volume 42, numbers 15-26, page xxiv1 more example
I will entreat you, to do what's possible to finish this everlasting separation, which will kill me soonly, if not ceasing.
2007, Willem Bilderdijk, Jan Bosch, M. van Hattum, Mr. W. Bilderdijk's briefwisseling, 1798-1806, page 155
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Origin
From soon + -ly. Since the late 15th century.
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