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  1. noun Purpose; motive: a quarrel only for the sake of argument.
  2. noun Advantage; good: for the sake of his health.
  3. noun Personal benefit or interest; welfare: for her own sake.

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  • For their sake--for their sake," he added sadly to himself Oh, I know it could be done," said Samson. —  Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story
  • As one ponders upon Forest Hill for Mary Powell's sake--is not Shotover as dear a name as Shottery?--and Chalfont for Milton's sake, one thinks on Reigate surrounded by its hills for Anne Manning's sake, and keeps the place in one's heart Mary Powell_, with its sequel, Deborah's Diary_--Deborah was the young thing whom to bring into the world Mary Powell died--is one of the most fragrant books in English literature. —  Mary Powell ; Deborah's Diary
  • Many who now are rich will be the last in God's Kingdom; but those who are poor for my sake will be the very first in his Kingdom That night the disciples stayed in Tarichaea. —  Men Called Him Master
  • "For my sake--for your own sake, pity and forgive him. —  Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers
  • It is for your sake--for your sake, mind--that I think of this He turned and looked at her--looked at her, perhaps, with new eyes. —  The Lighted Way
 

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  1. Middle English, lawsuit, guilt, from Old English sacu; see sāg- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Japanese.

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  1. from Middle English sake, sak, sac, dispute, contention, lawsuit, cause, purpose, guilt, sake, from Anglo-Saxon sacu, strife, distress, persecution, fault, a lawsuit, jurisdiction in litigious suits (see sac), guilt, crime, = Old Saxon saka, strife, crime, lawsuit, cause, thing, = Middle Dutch saecke, Dutch zaak, matter, case, cause, business, affair, = Middle Low German Low German sake = Old High German sacha. sahha, Middle High German sache, strife, contention, lawsuit, case, cause, thing, German sache, case, affair, thing, = Icelandic sök (genitive sakar), a lawsuit, plaint, charge, offense charged, guilt, cause, sake, = Swedish sak = Danish sag, case, cause, matter, thing; cf. Gothic (Moesogothic) sakjō, strife; orig. strife, contention, especially at law; from the verb represented by Anglo-Saxon sacan (preterit sōc), strive, contend at law, bring a charge against, accuse (also in comp. ætsacan, deny, disown, forsacan, deny, forsake, onsacan, strive against, resist, deny, etc.), = Gothic (Moesogothic) sakan (preterit sók), contend, blame, rebuke; perhaps akin to L. sancire, render sacred, forbid, etc. (see sanction), Sanskrit sanj, sajj, adhere. From the same Teutonic root are ult. seek and sac, soc, soeage, saught, settle; cf. also forsake and ransack.
  2. Japanese
  3. A dial. variant of seak, a leak, a place where water oozes forth. See sike.
 

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