S vs Herefor - What's the difference?
s | herefor |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(obsolete, outside, Scotland) For (l): (l) or in (l) of this, with a (l) to this.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adverb herefor is
(obsolete|outside|scotland) for (l): (l) or in (l) of this, with a (l) to this.s
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)Letter
Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}herefor
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Adverb
(-)References
* “† Herefor, -fore, adv.'']” listed on page 238 of volume V (H–K), § i (H) of '''' [1st ed., 1901]''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.'' ''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. [¶
†herefor, -fore, adv.''” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)
