PROMPTITUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does promptitude mean? 

• PROMPTITUDE (noun)
  The noun PROMPTITUDE has 1 sense:

1. the characteristic of doing things without delay

  Familiarity information: PROMPTITUDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROMPTITUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The characteristic of doing things without delay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

promptitude; promptness

Hypernyms ("promptitude" is a kind of...):

celerity; quickness; rapidity; rapidness; speediness (a rate that is rapid)

 Context examples 

Mr. Woodhouse talked over his alarms, and Emma was in spirits to persuade them away with all her usual promptitude.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

What I have endured, and do endure here, is insupportable.” And but for the promptitude of that best of creatures,” said Mrs. Markleham, telegraphing the Doctor as before, and refolding the letter, “it would be insupportable to me to think of.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

One other short call in Harley Street, in which Elinor received her brother's congratulations on their travelling so far towards Barton without any expense, and on Colonel Brandon's being to follow them to Cleveland in a day or two, completed the intercourse of the brother and sisters in town;—and a faint invitation from Fanny, to come to Norland whenever it should happen to be in their way, which of all things was the most unlikely to occur, with a more warm, though less public, assurance, from John to Elinor, of the promptitude with which he should come to see her at Delaford, was all that foretold any meeting in the country.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)