Meanings
- formalnot comparableFrom that.
Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom
1923, H. P. Lovecraft, Hypnos3 more examples
No man ever deliberately does injury to another without himself suffering therefrom, at some future day, as much as the party he has injured; although it may be after a different fashion.
1850, T. S. Arthur, “Seed Time and Harvest”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 130Therefrom Boshy's saving propensities, being but the idiosyncrasies of the rich, were mercifully endured and spoken of by Mr. Civil.
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 195Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.
1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2Synonyms: thence
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbFrom that.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbfrom that place or from there
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Origin
- Middle Englishtherfrom
- Englishtherefrom
From Middle English therfrom, þærfrom, þarvram (also as ther-fro, þer-fro, þarfra), equivalent to there + from. Cognate with Danish derfra, Swedish därifrån, Norwegian Bokmål derfra, Norwegian Nynorsk derifrå, derfrå, Icelandic þarfrá. Compare Saterland Frisian deerfon, West Frisian dêrfan, Dutch daarvan, German Low German daarvan, German davon.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian оттам
- оттам (ottam)within this content or context
Dutch daaruit
- daaruitwithin this content or context
Finnish sieltä, siitä
- sieltäwithin this content or context
- siitäwithin this content or context
French de là
- de làwithin this content or context
German daher
- daherwithin this content or context
Hungarian belőle, abból
- belőlewithin this content or context
- abbólwithin this content or context
Swedish därav
- däravwithin this content or context
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with therefrom
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