apace

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English apās (“step by step, slowly; quickly, rapidly; at once, promptly”), from Old French à pas (“at a quick pace”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /əˈpeɪs/ Rhymes: -eɪs === Adverb === apace (not comparable) Quickly, rapidly, with speed. 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, The Germ; reprinted in Poems [Collection of British and American Authors; 1380], copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1873, OCLC 933409239, page 2, lines 19–24: (To one, it is ten years of years. ... Yet now, and in this place, Surely she leaned o'er me—her hair Fell all about my face. ... Nothing: the autumn fall of leaves. The whole year sets apace.) ==== Synonyms ==== expeditiously swiftly ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== === Further reading === Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “apace”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. === Anagrams === capea