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English Dictionary: 'shortly by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shortly \Short"ly\, adv. [AS. sceortlice.]
      1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.
            --Chaucer.
  
                     I shall grow jealous of you shortly.   --Shak.
  
                     The armies came shortly in view of each other.
                                                                              --Clarendon.
  
      2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express
            ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.
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