Adverb

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(conjunctive) For that or this purpose, referring to something previously stated.

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I have married a wife, and therefore I can not come.

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Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore ?

(conjunctive) Consequently, by or in consequence of that or this cause; referring to something previously stated.

* , title=(Discourse on the Method)

, passage=Je pense, donc je suis (I think, therefore I am)}}

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, 

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=

, volume=100, issue=2, page=171, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Well-connected Brains , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}

* (rfdate), Spectator

He blushes; therefore he is guilty.

Adverb

(en adverb)

(obsolete) Accordingly; correspondingly.

* 1604 , (William Shakespeare), Measure for Measure , V.i:

That apprehends no further than this world, / And squarest thy life according .

Consistently (as); in a corresponding manner (now generally expressing accordance with two or more alternatives).

* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.20:

Ethical theories may be divided into two classes, according as they regard virtue as an end or a means.

In accordance, in a manner consistent (to) (something).

* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :

there was only a frightening silence, unenlivened even by the invidious enquiries of former years, which culminated, according to its stern nature, in a still more frightening old woman, a figure awaiting her on the very doorstep.