Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. At a rapid pace; swiftly.
- adv. In such a way or at such a speed as to keep up the requisite momentum; abreast.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. with rapid movements
Etymologies
- a- + pace, circa 1350. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English a pas, from Old French : a, to (from Latin ad; see ad-) + pas, step; see pace1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Christians, were hastening to their own ruin apace, both efficiently and meritoriously, were setting both God and man against them; see 1”
“None of Bacon's writings gives in short apace so vivid a picture of his tastes and aspirations as this fragment of the plan of an ideal commonwealth.”
“Government had reached agreement on all issues with Telkom's strategic equity partner, Thintana, and preparations were "apace" for the listing.”
“But with immigration from heavily Catholic nations continuing apace, the Latinoization of the American Catholic Church will only be accelerated.”
“Federal regulators sought Wednesday to prevent the growing furor over improper foreclosures from escalating, pressing mortgage lenders to replace flawed and fraudulent court documents while insisting that foreclosures continue apace.”
The Washington Post: U.S. to lenders: No moratorium, but fix the mess
“The time for those companies who value their staff and their business to shine and grow apace with social media and all the benefits of such.”
Ban social media, lose the marketing war, lose staff « pwcom 2.0
“At the end of the 19th century, the Civil War was still a recent memory, industrialization was proceeding apace and immigrants were streaming into the country.”
“Mankind has prospered from science, but prosperity will endure only if institutional innovation keeps apace of technological innovation.”
“Dawg is pleased to see the love fest between Espernza and Manuel continues apace but this is about something else.”
“Here Leavy quotes Richard Gartner, author of Betrayed as Boys, "the definitive book on male survivors of childhood sexual abuse," a person who is well aware of just how many people will let the greatest atrocities proceed apace:”
The Huffington Post: Stanton Peele: How the Community Knew About Sandusky
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘apace’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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When a door is ajar
Words with the prefix "a"
ajar, asleep, akin, ablaze, afoot, abed, aground, aback, afloat, alive, abaft, abloom and 91 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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vmarinelli's Words
canard, gumption, inexorable, insouciance, inviolable, mordant, euphonious, sawbuck, carpe diem, pay dirt, adipocere, profligate and 496 more...
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A Matter Of Time
Favorite time-related words.
vespertine, twilight, gloaming, eftsoon, eventide, dawn, eos, dusk, witching hour, ephemeral, candlemark, autumnal and 122 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Waughian
High probability of having been clawed from the pages of Brideshead Revisited or The Loved One
petulantly, apace, askance, rapacious, ebullient, insular, intransigeant, recidivism
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Yet more words
hootowling, hoot owl, midday, prohibitive, shutdown, gerund, tripe, doweling, detestable, good measure, boojum, undergirding and 167 more...
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Act quickly
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GRE Vocab II
apace, impetuous, abet, countenance, mainstay, munificent, bilious, dudgeon, pettish, querulous, waspish, neophyte and 113 more...
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new words
faulty parallelism, antebellum, lucubrate, retronym, asyndeton, polysyndeton, chiasmus, laconic, dysphemism, zeugma, subpoena, dialectic and 130 more...
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GRE words
ersatz, trope, obsequious, sycophantic, endemic, silviculture, impugn, indignant, squander, substantiate, repudiate, vindictive and 132 more...
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bilby
Here let me breathe my last: envy me not
This minute in your arms: I’ll die apace,
As fast as e’er I can, and end your trouble.
- John Dryden, 'All for Love'. Sep 20, 2009
kiltwraith with speed; quickly; swiftly Mar 18, 2009