straightway

straight +‎ way

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straightway (plural straightways)

1. A straight section of a racetrack.

From straight +‎ way. First attested in the sense of "directly".

straightway (not comparable)

1. Directly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. At once; forthwith.
   • 1849, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volume 1:

     Now, if in a stage coach in the depth of winter, when three passengers are warm and snug, a fourth, all besnowed and frozen, descends from the outside and takes place amongst them, straightway all the three passengers shift their places, […]

   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 547:

     Now one day of the days, […] the Sultan cast his eyes upon her as she stood before him, and said to his Grand Wazir, "This be the very woman whereof I spake to thee yesterday, so do thou straightway bring her before me, that I may see what be her suit and fulfil her need."

   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

     This made her angrier than before, and she blew her silver whistle twice. Straightway a great flock of wild crows came flying toward her, enough to darken the sky.