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Every word thereof was a rose in the rose-garden of the love of God and was a flower, a hyacinth When the breeze of Providence blows from the direction of gift, the gardens of hearts attain thereby exceeding purity and freshness.

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  1. adverb Of or concerning this, that, or it.
  2. adverb From that cause or origin; therefrom.

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  • Genesis 9: 4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Every word thereof was a rose in the rose-garden of the love of God and was a flower, a hyacinth When the breeze of Providence blows from the direction of gift, the gardens of hearts attain thereby exceeding purity and freshness. —  Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
  • To-day One thing thou art forbidden; now thou knowest The name thereof: I told it thee in heaven, When thou wert sitting at My feet. —  Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.
  • The name thereof is, Hanterdauis, which (turning d to t) signifieth halfe a tongue More certaine, though lesse wonderfull, and yet, for the strangenesse, wel worth the viewing, is Mainamber: Mayne, is a rocke, amber, as some say, signifieth Ambrose. —  The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue
  • My opinion is that Parson Twemlow were touched up by his own conscience for having a nephew more French than English; and 'Caryl Carne' is the name thereof, with more French than English sound to it Why, he have been gone for years and years," said the landlord of the Darling Arms, where the village was holding council; "he have never been seen in these parts since the death of the last Squire Carne, to my knowledge And what did the old Squire die of, John Prater? —  Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War
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  1. from Middle English therof, thereoffe, tharof (= OFries. therof = Swedish Danish deraf); from there + of.
 

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