presto

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Italian presto (“quickly”).

I cannot tell whether you like these journal letters: I believe they would be dull to me to read them over; but, perhaps, little MD is pleased to know how Presto passes his time in her absence. — The Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift
Thus, for instance, the truly philosophical combination of a bold, exuberant spirituality which runs at presto pace, and a dialectic rigour and necessity which makes no false step, is unknown to most thinkers and scholars from their own experience, and therefore, should any one speak of it in their presence, it is incredible to them. — Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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