These vs Thus - What's the difference?
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(lb) In this way or manner.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
(lb) As a result.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
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As a determiner these
is plural of lang=en.As a pronoun these
is plural of lang=en.As an adverb thus is
in this way or manner.As a noun thus is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.these
English
(wikipedia these)Determiner
(en determiner)citation, passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.}}
- These pretzels are making me thirsty.
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) thus, thous, thos, from (etyl) .Adverb
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago.}}
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus , by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.}}
