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therefor

adverb/ðɛəˈfɔː/

What It Means

For that; in return for that.

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Therefor in Context

“Welcoming people from all over the world, Honolulu has the glad heart behind the "glad hand," so to speak, when the welcomees give cause therefor, whether they come to teach, or to learn; to rest, or to work; to earn, or to spend.”

— 1922, Paradise of the Pacific, volume 35

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Univerbation of there (“that”) + for.

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