Why use 'speedily' rather than 'quickly'? [duplicate]

In the last few years, I have become aware of a few people using the word 'speedily', for example 'to speedily find'. My initial reaction has always been to wonder why they didn't use the word 'quickly' instead of what seems to be a contrived word of 'speedily'. Am I wrong to find this word jarring and contrived?

Solution 1:

Because it's a legitimate word. I don't find it jarring, and if contrived, it was contrived hundreds of years ago. It even appears in the King James version of the Bible:

"Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack."

-Genesis 44:11

"And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand."

-1 Samuel 27:1

I could go on, but "speedily" appears in the bible 20 times.

Incidentally, by comparison, "quickly" appears 38 times, but I don't see how "speedily" being used half as often ⁠— a bit more than half, actually ⁠— makes it jarring or contrived. Perhaps if it were "velocitously," a word not found in any dictionary I know of, certainly not Merriam-Webster or OED, but nonetheless appears quite contrivedly and jarringly in a number of novels and other published works, like when Rosenblitt writing on modernism and the classics wrote:

"But whether I'm wrong or I'm right, if you haven't yet met my friend Timoleon, please do yourselves the honour of velocitously visiting a good library..."