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(formal, or, legal) Up to this or that time.

* 1830 , Anna Maria Porter, The Barony (volume 3, page 460)

The exhaustless conjecturings of that evening's full conversation, made such of the small party, as had hitherto been strangers, well acquainted with each other's turn of mind

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(label) At that time.

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*Bible, (w) xii. 6

*:And the Canaanite was then in the land.

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(label) Soon afterward.

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*Bible, (w) v. 24

*:First be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

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(label) Next in order; in addition.

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(label) In that case.

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(label) At the same time; on the other hand.

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(label) At the time that; when.

*1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur)'', Book I.23, reprinted 1817, Sir Thomas Malory, (William Caxton), ''Morte d'Arthur: The Byrth, Lyf, and Actes of Kyng Arthur , Volume 1, page 37:

*:Than the knyght sawe hym lye soo on the ground, he alyght and was passynge heuy, for he wende he had slayne hym.

Used to contradict an assertion.

*2001 , (Eric Malpass), At the Height of the Moon , page 28,

*:‘She says Indian elephants are tidgy little things.’ ¶ ‘They?re not then .’ Emma was getting heated. ‘They?re –’ ¶ ‘Emma!’ said Jenny sharply. The child subsided.