Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. By that means; because of that.
- adv. In connection with that: "And thereby hangs a tale” ( Shakespeare).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- By that; by that means; in consequence of that.
- Annexed to that; in that connection.
- By or near that place; near that number, quantity, or degree.
Wiktionary
- adv. formal By it, by that.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. By that; by that means; in consequence of that.
- adv. Annexed to that.
- adv. Thereabout; -- said of place, number, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. by that means or because of that
Examples
“After two years from a sale or taking of land for taxes, except as provided in section sixty-two, whoever then holds the title thereby acquired may bring a petition in the land court for the foreclosure of all rights of redemp - tion thereunder.”
Internet Archive: Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
“If so recorded it shall be prima facie evi - dence of all facts essential to the validity of the title thereby Acts, 1933. —”
Internet Archive: Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
“Slavery, treason in support of slavery and segregation were evil when they occurred, and the legacy left thereby is evil.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginia “Confederate History Month” Proclamation
“All they will have achieved thereby is many more hectares of newsprint and gigabytes of internet coverage as their attempts to cover up the extent of their larceny stands exposed.”
“An immigrant who comes in on net public subsidy, increasing the aggression on the net taxpayer thereby, is accessory to treason, the treason of offcials which diverted the public revenue to him, but an additional native is not.”
Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Interestingly enough sometimes a single amino acid substitution, if at a critical juncture, can have a large impact on the folding of that protein thereby affecting protein shape.”
“Staff at a hotel in east Slovakia also hinted that he was unwelcome — until, that is, one of his sons spoke in English, thereby revealing that this was an American family in possession of hard currency.”
“After a time my brothers began pressing me to travel with them; but I refused saying, “What gained ye by travel voyage that I should gain thereby?””
“If a man gain the use of wealth, peradventure he is diverted thereby from the remembrance of his Lord; if poverty choke him his heart is distracted by woe, or if disquietude waste his heart, weakness causeth him to fall.”
“And I think that the useful rhetoric for "ID" to be gained thereby is to say that even pro-science people don't see overlap between the religious content of "ID" and SciCre.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thereby’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
yours, yourself, yet, your, without, you, within, will, yourselves, would, why, with and 291 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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Old-timey Function Words
Function Word
Herein we place all the therebys, amongsts and withals.hereby, thereby, whereby, herein, therein, wherein, forthwith, therewith, withal, amongst, moreover, heretofore and 21 more...
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hard to sense
somewhat, somewhere, elsewhere, whereby, likewise, spite, ever, along, otherwise, whatever, whichever, hitherto and 116 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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Stumbled Words
A list of words that I stumbled upon while reading.
penumbra, prolix, propitious, resplendence, sepulchral, Weltschmerz, apparition, brigand, probity, chalice, paroxysm, pallor and 160 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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There There
Oh, prepositional adverbs (and bizarre Russian musical instruments)! How I love you.
therein, thereby, thereupon, thereto, theretoward, therethrough, thereabout, thereafter, thereof, therefore, thereinafter, thereinbefore and 11 more...
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Doug and Paul's Everyday Words
Words a friend and I actually use in common parlance, much to the astonishment of all, and sometimes ourselves.
wherewithal, whereas, ukase, turgid, transmogrify, thereby, summarily, regale, proclivities, prescient, perusal, permutations and 21 more...
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Contract Terms
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