Therefor vs Herefor - What's the difference?
therefor | herefor |
(obsolete) Therefore, for that or this reason or cause.
For or in return for that.
* 1892 , (Benjamin Harrison),
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(obsolete, outside, Scotland) For (l): (l) or in (l) of this, with a (l) to this.
As adverbs the difference between therefor and herefor
is that therefor is therefore, for that or this reason or cause while herefor is for this: instead or in consideration of this, with a view to this.therefor
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Adverb
(-)- During the last fiscal year the Secretary purchased ... 54,355,748 ounces of silver and issued in payment therefor $51,106,608 in notes.
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* English pronominal adverbsherefor
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* (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)