Promptness
[prɑmptnɪs]
Definition
(n.) Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action.
(n.) Cheerful willingness; alacrity.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Readiness, quickness, alacrity, alertness, promptitude.
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Examples
- Ah, there's promptness,' said the undertaker. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Sherman, with his characteristic promptness, abandoned the work he was engaged upon and pushed on at once. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Promptness, indeed! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I replied, with intelligent promptness, that he was probably worth about four dollars--may be four and a half. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A success north of the James should be followed up with great promptness. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Another factor of telephone service in America is promptness. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But the promptness of General Sedgwick, who was personally present and commanded that part of our line, soon reformed it and restored order. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was in the time of the heathen deities, who used occasionally to take people at their words, with a promptness, in some cases, extremely awkward. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But Trenor, with a promptness which did not escape her, had moved between herself and the door. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It is worthy of note, as to the promptness with which the Edison stations became paying properties, that four of the metered stations were earning upward of 15 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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