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THEREOF
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
From that circumstance or source
Example:
typhus fever results therefrom
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Sense 2
Meaning:
Example:
a problem and the solution thereof
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Context examples:
The reader believed his name was already written in the Lamb's book of life, and he yearned after the hour which should admit him to the city to which the kings of the earth bring their glory and honour; which has no need of sun or moon to shine in it, because the glory of God lightens it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I returned to my book—Bewick's History of British Birds: the letterpress thereof I cared little for, generally speaking; and yet there were certain introductory pages that, child as I was, I could not pass quite as a blank.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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