Adverb

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

*

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

*

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)}}

*

, 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

(-)

On certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always.

* (Jeremy Taylor)

It is good that we sometimes be contradicted.

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}

(obsolete) On a certain occasion in the past; once.

* (William Shakespeare)

That fair and warlike form / In which the majesty of buried Denmark / Did sometimes march.

* :

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

*, II.3.7:

they detract, scoffe, and raile (saith one), and bark at me on every side; but I, like that Albanian dog sometimes given to Alexander for a present, vindico me ab illis solo contemptu ; I lie still, and sleep, vindicate myself by contempt alone.