Meanings
alternative archaic here-with
- not comparablewith this; especially, with this letter or communication
So like, that all the walles did seeme to flame. Yet cruell Cupid, not herewith content, Forst him estsoones to follow other game, And loue a Shephards daughter for his dearest Dame.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC2 more examples
"[…]I am not much accustomed to correspondence myself, and I am particular respecting this present letter because I want it to be both straightforward and delicate." Herewith he hands a letter, closely written in somewhat pale ink but in a neat round hand, to the ironmaster, who reads as follows:[…]
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLCThese aforementioned three donkeys I hereby order immediately transferred as payment for others herewith received, which shall comprise, by this compensatory writ, full and complete payment thereof.
Part 1 published in 1605, Part 2 in 1615, translated in 2003, Miguel de Cervantes and translated by Edith Grossman, Don Quixote, pages 201-202 - not comparableby this means
- not comparablein this way, hereby
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Malachi 3:10
Synonyms & antonyms
adverb(formal) by means of this
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Englishherwiþ
- Middle Englishherwith
- Englishherewith
From Middle English herwith or her-with, from late Old English herwiþ. By surface analysis, here + with.
More words from Middle English, Old English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian с това, с настоящото
- с това (s tova)with this (especially, with this letter or communication)
- с настоящото (s nastojaštoto)with this (especially, with this letter or communication)
Dutch hiermee, hierbij
- hiermeewith this (especially, with this letter or communication)
- hierbijwith this (especially, with this letter or communication)
Esperanto ĉi kune
- ĉi kunewith this (especially, with this letter or communication)
Finnish täten, täten
- tätenwith this (especially, with this letter or communication)
- tätenby this means
- tälläby this means
- näinin this way
- tätenin this way
French avec quoi, ci-joint
- avec quoiwith this (especially, with this letter or communication)
- ci-jointwith this (especially, with this letter or communication)
German hiermit
- hiermitwith this (especially, with this letter or communication)
Hungarian ezzel, ezáltal
- ezzelwith this (especially, with this letter or communication)
- ezáltalby this means
- ezennelin this way
Persian بدین وسیله
- بدین وسیله (bedin vasile)with this (especially, with this letter or communication)
Portuguese com isto
- com istowith this (especially, with this letter or communication)
Russian при сём, сим
- при сём (pri sjom)with this (especially, with this letter or communication)
- сим (sim)with this (especially, with this letter or communication)
Swedish härmed
- härmedwith this (especially, with this letter or communication)
Cite this entry
herewith. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/herewith
“herewith.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/herewith. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “herewith,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/herewith.
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