Immediate(a.) Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.
Immediate(a.) Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
Immediate(a.) Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause.
Immediately(adv.) In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous.
Immediately(adv.) Without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at once.
Immediately(adv.) As soon as. Cf. Directly, 8, Note.
Immediateness(n.) The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.
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