Adverb

(-)

In an immediate manner; instantly or without delay.

I hope we can begin immediately .

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Adverb

(obsolete) In one group; together.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.4:

Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessany payns [...].

(idiomatic) At the same time; simultaneously.

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(idiomatic) Immediately; now; right away.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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