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Therefore   /ðˈɛrfˌɔr/   Listen
conjunction
Therefore  conj., adv.  
1.
For that or this reason, referring to something previously stated; for that. "I have married a wife, and therefore I can not come." "Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?"
2.
Consequently; by consequence. "He blushes; therefore he is guilty."
Synonyms: See Then.





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... better, he thought he might regain strength by going abroad, and therefore went to the shop of a rich friend of his, with whom he continued long in discourse. As he was rising to go home, he observed a woman make a sign to him, whom he presently knew to be the confident of Schemselnihar. Partly out of fear, and partly through joy, ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Volume 1 • Anonymous
... should advert to the course pursued by the original Grand Lodge of England, at its establishment in 1717, as from that body nearly all the Grand Lodges of the York rite now in existence derive their authority, either directly or indirectly, and the mode of its organization has, therefore, universally been admitted to have been regular ...
— The Principles of Masonic Law - A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages And Landmarks of - Freemasonry • Albert G. Mackey
... had always appeared to me as a very real and notable, and therefore interesting man, though for some reason not apparent a man manque, a man who ought to have been more notable than he was. I quite understand and follow you in placing him with, or rather in the class of, Whately and Paley, but he fell short of the robust ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
... supplied the material for a memoir of my mother deal much more fully with the life of my father than with her own life. Mr. Desmond MacCarthy has therefore linked into the narrative several important ...
— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell
... but the murre continues to lay for about two months. The egging season lasts, therefore, from the 10th or 20th of May until the last of July. In this period the egg company which has for eighteen years worked this field gathered in 1872 seventeen thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dozen eggs, and in 1873 fifteen thousand two hundred and three dozen. These brought last year in the ...
— Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands • Charles Nordhoff


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