straightway Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb at once
    • straightway the clouds began to scatter
  2. adverb in a direct course
    • plunged straightway to the rocks below

WordNet


Straight"way` adverb
Definitions
  1. Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.
    He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose. Mark v. 41,42.

Webster 1913