Short"ly, adv. [AS. sceortlice.]
1.
In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.
Chaucer.
I shall grow jealous of you shortly.
Shak.
The armies came shortly in view of each other.
Clarendon.
2.
In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.
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