Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb At that place; there.
- adverb At that event; on account of that.
from The Century Dictionary.
- At that place.
- At that time; upon that.
- At that thing or doing; on that account.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb At that place; there.
- adverb At that occurrence or event; on that account.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb There; at that
place . - adverb At that
event .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The blow that's aim'd thereat is latcht by th'arm.
Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight 1678
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Christ then being "the strait gate," and his doctrines the narrow way, and himself the only door of admission to the favour of God, and salvation; the scripture directs us how we are to enter in thereat, that is, by repentance, and faith in the merit of the
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It hath but one gate or entrie thereat, which is shut with piles, stakes, and barres.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Great was my surprise thereat, for I had killed a man.
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And thereat, out of her great happiness and out of the fear that it might be taken from her, she launched into an original and glowing address upon the status and rights of woman -- the first new-woman lecture delivered north of Fifty-three.
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Written between March and June, 1973, it named Seedman as having made "the reluctant decision... to move the investigation to the 24th precinct on the promise of Mosque officials to produce the detainees thereat."
Len Levitt: Harlem Mosque Shooting: New Facts From the Old Chief Len Levitt 2011
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And thereat not another word could the missionary get from me, even though he baited me with more photographs that sent my head whirling with a rush of memory pictures and that urged and tickled my tongue with spates of speech which I sullenly resisted and overcame.
Chapter 6 2010
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And thereat he broke into a wild outpour of incoherence that did not cease until Grief seized him by the shoulders and shook him into silence.
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El-Soo was angered thereat; but he refused to speak with her, and went to the trading post to lay in extra ammunition.
The Wit of Porportuk 2010
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And thereat he fell to dreaming while he played Meyerbeer's King of
CHAPTER X 2010
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