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within a word
a. In the limits of (a period of time); most usually, before the end of, after not more than; also, since the beginning of, not more than…ago; or gen. between the beginning and end of, in the course of, during. So †within a word = as soon as a word was uttered, at a word.
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c1175 Early Eng. Homilies (Vesp.) 89 Wiðinnen feower wucan comen [hi] to him.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2473 Wið-innen a lut ȝeren Brennes hine bi-ðohte.
c1290 Beket 1500 in S. Eng. Leg. 149 Euerech Abbod of greie Monekes to þulke chapitle cam With-Inne þre ȝer.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 7047 Sone aftyrward, with-yn a lytyl.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 149 He hath wedded a wyf with-Inne þis syx monethes.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 103 I fel a-slepe with-Inne an our or two.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) xxv. 119 He schall hafe worde within a day and a nyght.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Acts i. A Ye shalbe baptysed wt ye holy goost, & that within this few dayes.
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. b v b How many meanes and weys hath my lord Protectours grace, within his tyme of gouernaunce..attempted..to shonne these warres.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Bb3 Things..which may be done in succession of ages, though not within the houre-glasse of one mans life. View more context for this quotation
1651 tr. J. Kitchin Jurisdictions (1653) 79 If the Owner do not come within a year and a day.
1766 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances IV. 247 I am, within these three Days, recovering Spirits and Appetite.
1822 Act 3 Geo. IV c. 39 §1 Within Twenty one Days after the Execution of such Warrant of Attorney.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ New Pilgr. Progr. (1870) xi. 85 The cry went abroad of ‘Ten minutes to dress for breakfast!’.. I was dressed within the ten minutes.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xix. 361 One of which was standing within the present generation.
1918 Act 8 George V c. 2 (title) The Hours within which Marriages may be lawfully solemnized.
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