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apace

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/əˈpeɪs/

Definition of apace

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (not-comparable)Quickly, rapidly, with speed.
    “Construction of the new offices is proceeding apace.”
    “Gallop apace, you fiery footed ſteedes, / Towards Phœbus lodging, ſuch a Wagoner / As Phaeton would whip you to the weſt, / And bring in Cloudie night immediately.”
    “Ow faire Hippolita, our nuptiall houre / Drawes on apace: foure happy daies bring in / Another Moon[…]”
    “(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.)”
    “The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man, goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. […] Once we killed bad men: now we liquidate unsocial elements.”

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Etymology

From Middle English apās (“step by step, slowly; quickly, rapidly; at once, promptly”), from Old French à pas (“at a quick pace”).

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