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eftsoons
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eftsoon \Eft*soon"\, Eftsoons \Eft*soons"\, adv. [OE. eftsone, eftsones; AS. eft + s[=o]na soon. See Eft, and Soon.] Again; anew; a second time; at once; speedily. [Archaic]
And, if he fall from his capel [horse] eftsone.
--Chaucer.
The champion stout eftsoons dismounted.
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
obsolete or archaic way of saying "soon afterward," from Old English eftsona "a second time, repeatedly, soon after, again," from eft "afterward, again, a second time" (from Proto-Germanic *aftiz, from PIE root *apo- "off, away;" see apo-) + sona "immediately" (see soon). With adverbial genitive. Not in living use since 17c.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context obsolete English) once again; another time. (11th-17th c.) 2 (context now archaic English) Soon after, presently. (from 13th c.)
Wikipedia
Eftsoons is an album by American avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Hal Russell with Mars Williams recorded in 1981 and originally released on the Nessa label.
Usage examples of "eftsoons".
Which hearing young Stephen was a marvellous glad man and he averred that he who stealeth from the poor lendeth to the Lord for he was of a wild manner when he was drunken and that he was now in that taking it appeared eftsoons.