Definition of "sudden"

From lightninges and tempeſtes, from plage, peſtilence, and famine, from battayle and murther, and from ſodayn death. / Good lord deliver us.

1552, The Boke of Common Prayer [etc.]‎, The Letanie

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients

Never was such a sudden scholar made.

c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 1, scene 1

Thus these pious flourishes and colours, examined thoroughly, are like the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye; but look well upon them, or at least but touch them, and they turn into cinders.

1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes

And if along with these should come⁠The man I held as half-divine;⁠Should strike a sudden hand in mine,And ask a thousand things of home; […]I should not feel it to be strange.

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto XIV, page 22

I have no joy of this contract to-night: / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;

c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 2, scene 2

Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.

1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,