Thereafter vs Thereby - What's the difference?
thereafter | thereby |
After that, from then on.
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
(formal) By it, by that.
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* 1787 , :
As adverbs the difference between thereafter and thereby
is that thereafter is after that, from then on while thereby is by it, by that.thereafter
English
Adverb
(-)- He left; thereafter we never met again.
- "My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."
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* English pronominal adverbsthereby
English
Adverb
- Thirdly'', Whereas the Maintainance of an hundred thousand Children, from two Years old, and upwards, cannot be computed at less than Ten Shillings a piece ''per Annum'', the Nation's Stock will be thereby encreased fifty thousand pounds ''per Annum'', besides the profit of a new Dish, introduced to the Tables of all ''Gentlemen of Fortune in the Kingdom, who have any refinement in Taste, and the Money will circulate among our selves, the Goods being entirely of our own Growth and Manufacture.
- This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby , any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
