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Hereto vs Herefor - What's the difference?

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As adverbs the difference between hereto and herefor

is that hereto is to here, to this while herefor is for this: instead or in consideration of this, with a view to this.

hereto

English

Adverb

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  • (archaic) to here, to this
  • * 1697 , Daniel Defoe, An Essay upon Projects
    • I, A. B., do solemnly swear and attest that the account hereto annexed is true and right...
  • (archaic) yet, so far
  • * 1609 , William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
    • Which the rather / We shall be bless'd to do, if he remember / A kinder value of the people than / He hath hereto priz'd them at.
  • * 1861 , Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
    • Lords had not been frequent among her acquaintance hereto .
  • (archaic) regarding this subject

    • Usage notes

    * In current English, hereto is extremely formal and used mostly in legal contexts.

    Anagrams

    * English pronominal adverbs ----

    herefor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete, outside, Scotland) For (l): (l) or in (l) of this, with a (l) to this.

    • References

    * “ † Herefor, -fore, adv.'']” listed on page 238 of volume V (H–K), § i (H) of '''' [1st ed., 1901]
    † Herefor, -fore,''' ''adv.'' ''Obs.'' exc. ''Sc.'' [f. Here ''adv.'' 16 + For ''prep.'': compare ''therefore''; Du. ''hiervoor'', Ger. ''hierfür'', Da. ''herfor''.] [¶] '''1.''' For this: instead or in consideration of this, with a view to this. Still in occas. Sc. use, written ''herefor''. [¶] ''a'' '''1300''' ''Cursor M.'' 17506 Þir guiftes her for [''Cott.'' þar-for] giue we ?u. ''c'' '''1380''' Wyclif ''Sel. Wks.'' III. 343 He was tau?t to strive not herfore. '''1549''' Chaloner ''Erasmus on Folly'' Sija, Herefore haue I obteined the mercy of god. ''Mod. Sc.'' For the sum of twenty pounds, being the consideration herefor given. [¶] † '''2.''' For this reason, on this account, therefore. [¶     ''c'' '''1200''' ''Vices & Virtues'' 5 Hierfore ic am neðer and unmihti. ''c'' '''1330''' R. Brunne ''Chron.'' (1810) 149 Herfor kyng Richard wrathes him. '''1380''' ''Lay Folks Catech.'' (Lamb. MS.) 66 Here-fore þe gospel of Mathew seys þat crist bad vs pray thus. '''1480''' Caxton ''Chron. Eng.'' li. 35 Saynt albone suffred his martirdome before that saynt edmond was martryd and herfor saynt albone is callyd the fyrst martir of Englond. '''1581''' Pettie ''Guazzo’s Civ. Conv.'' i. (1586) 2, I will not heerefore commende you so much. ''c'' '''1620''' A. Hume ''Brit. Tongue'' (1865) 13 Heerfoer, for distinctiones of both sound and symbol, I wald commend the symbol and name of i and u to the voual sound. '''1697 Dallas ''Stiles i. 84 Herefore I beseech your Lordships, that ye would..ordain the said Director..to grant..Precepts. * “ †herefor, -fore, adv.''” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)