adv. [-LY2.] In an urgent manner.

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1548.  Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. John, xix. 108 b. Therfore the Jewes called more vrgentely vpon the matter.

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1611.  Cotgr., Importunément, importunately, vrgently, earnestly.

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1789.  in C. F. Jenkins, Tortola (1923), 90. I thank thee for thy kind advice thou hast so urgently given me respecting the African scheme.

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1840.  Thirlwall, Greece, VII. 303. His attention … was urgently claimed by the danger which now threatened him.

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1871.  A. Meadows, Man. Midwifery, iii. (ed. 2), 361. Prompt action is urgently necessary.

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