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Definition of Posthaste
1. n. Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier.
2. adv. With speed or expedition; as, he traveled posthaste; to send posthaste.
Definition of Posthaste
1. Adverb. quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed ¹
2. Noun. (alternative spelling of post-haste) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Posthaste
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Posthaste
Literary usage of Posthaste
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Stage-quarrel Between Ben Jonson and the So-called Poetasters by Roscoe Addison Small, George Lyman Kittredge (1899)
"The fact, however, that the character of the original posthaste corresponds very
closely with that of a typical player presented to us in Greene's ..."
2. A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559-1642 by Frederick Gard Fleay (1891)
"The satire on Monday as posthaste was also, I think, meant to be acceptable to
Jonson, who had exhibited ... posthaste, like Monday, can sing extempore, ii. ..."
3. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London 1586-1592, Giving New Light on the Pre by Arthur Acheson (1920)
"The further development of this narrative will make it evident beyond any reasonable
doubt that posthaste, the poet-actor, is intended to caricature ..."
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