THEREFORE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result

Example:

the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted

Synonyms:

hence; so; thence; therefore; thus

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

As a consequence

Example:

he had good reason to be grateful for the opportunities which they had made available to him and which consequently led to the good position he now held

Synonyms:

consequently; therefore

Classified under:

Adverbs

Credits

Context examples:

Their time and strength, and spirits, were, therefore, exactly ready for this walk, and they entered into it with pleasure.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I think, therefore, that there can be no doubt that we are now looking upon the remains of this James Colver.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Fairfax, I saw, approved me: her anxiety on my account vanished; therefore I was certain I did well.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I do not wish to take any unfair advantage, and I beg therefore that you will take some days to consider of your determination.’

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Would not my absence itself be an evidence to them of my alarm, and therefore of my fatal knowledge?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Such an individual does not have the family's cancer-related mutation and therefore, they do not have the associated cancer risk from that specific mutation.

(Phenocopy, NCI Dictionary)

All things therefore seemed to point to this; that I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I concentrated my attention, therefore, upon him and his household.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“And therefore the worst of foemen to thyself,” said Alleyne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I fled from my trial, therefore, and disappeared from the world.