Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Because; for the reason that.
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- conjunction obsolete
because , for thereason that.
Etymologies
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From for + cause.
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Examples
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PVCQA audits are either routine or forcause/directed and can include:
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“But forcause somer was spente in the servyce of the wylde goddes, it is so moche to be regarded after what fashion yeouth is educate and browght upp, in whiche tyme that that is lerned (for the moste parte) will nott all holelie be forgotten in the older yeres,
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
ruzuzu commented on the word forcause
"Because; for the reason that."
--Century Dictionary
January 15, 2011