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there·fore  (ârfôr, -fr)
adv.
For that reason or cause; consequently or hence.

[Middle English : there, there; see there + for, fore, fore; see for.]

therefore
Adverb
for that reason: the training is long, and therefore expensive
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Adv.1.therefore - (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true"; "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go"; "the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted"
2.therefore - as a consequence; "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"

therefore
adverb consequently, so, thus, as a result, hence, accordingly, for that reason, whence, thence, ergo
Translations

therefore [ˈðɛəfɔːʳ] advpor lo tanto
therefore [ˈðɛəfɔːʳ] there advdonc, par conséquent
therefore [ˈðɛəfɔːʳ] advdaher, deshalb
therefore [ˈðɛəfɔːʳ] advperciò, quindi


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No fragments which can be identified as belonging to the first period survive to give us even a general idea of the history of the earliest epic, and we are therefore thrown back upon the evidence of analogy from other forms of literature and of inference from the two great epics which have come down to us.
They were again obliged, therefore, to beat down a path for their horses, sometimes travelling on the icy surface of the stream.
of the experiment is therefore absolutely demonstrated; its
 
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