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Therefor vs Thereto - What's the difference?

therefor | thereto |

As adverbs the difference between therefor and thereto

is that therefor is therefore, for that or this reason or cause while thereto is to that.

therefor

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Adverb

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  • (obsolete) Therefore, for that or this reason or cause.
  • For or in return for that.
  • * 1892 , (Benjamin Harrison),
    • 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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    thereto

    English

    Adverb

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  • (archaic, quaint) To that.
    • I require the operating manual thereto .
  • * c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: 374760, page 11:
    • Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke
  • (archaic, quaint, or, poetic) To it.
    • A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be. —Jack Kerouac

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