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therewise

therewise adverb: in that way.

Adverb

therewise (not comparable)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) In that way.
    • Pray give my moſt humble ſervice to Mr. Pope, and tell him, I beg the favour of him to let me know when he comes to town, what morning I ſhall wait on him at his lodging; for I walk out in a morning ſo often, that I may therewiſe loſe an opportunity of ſeeing him.1719 September 14, Mr. [Elijah] Fenton, “Letter LXXVII”, in The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., volume 8, London: […] B. Law […], published 1797, page 275
    • […] it appears to me highly incredible that the deceased, a poor helpless cripple, who was barely able to move about the village, having entirely lost the use of one arm and almost the entire power of speech, and was therewise enfeebled by paralysis, could, had he been pursued by the prisoner, have...1853 September 1, Reports of Cases in the Court of Nizamut Adawlut, Vol. III. Part II., Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., published 1855, page 368

Examples of therewise in a sentence

  • The city is also expending $16,000 in extending the water mains and therewise improving the water works plant.1911 February 15, Engineering & Contracting, volume XXXV, number 7, Chicago, I.L.: The Myron C. Clark Publishing Co., page 47:
  • The amount of heat depends on many parameters like temperature of gas, kind of gas, mean beam length, view factor and therewise size of kiln, shape of product, design of kiln.2006 May, M[iroslaw] Chmielowski, E[ckehard] Specht, “Modelling of the heat transfer of transport rollers in kilns”, in Applied Thermal...

Origin of therewise

From there + -wise.

Questions about therewise

What does therewise mean?
Therewise means in that way.
How do you use therewise in a sentence?
The city is also expending $16,000 in extending the water mains and therewise improving the water works plant.
What part of speech is therewise?
Therewise is an adverb.

Words near therewise in the dictionary

  1. therever
  2. therevid
  3. therevids
  4. therewhile
  5. therewhilst
  6. therewise
  7. therewith
  8. therewithal
  9. therewithall
  10. therewithin
  11. therewithout

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