different between therefor vs thereto

English

Etymology

there (“that”) +? for

Pronunciation

Stressed on the second syllable

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ð???f??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ð????f??/
• Homophone: therefore (first syllable stressed)

Adverb

therefor (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Therefore, for that or this reason or cause.
2. (now chiefly in law) For or in return for that.
   • 1892, Benjamin Harrison, Fourth State of the Union Address

     During the last fiscal year the Secretary purchased ... 54,355,748 ounces of silver and issued in payment therefor $51,106,608 in notes.

   • 1922, Paradise of the Pacific (volume 35)

     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.

   • 2016, Elena J. Duarte, People v. Garner, 244 Cal. App. 4th 1113 (Cal. App. 3d Dist. 2016)

     We emphasize that, contrary to repeated assertions in defendant's briefing, the trial court did not strike the true findings on those three prison term allegations, but struck only the punishment therefor, which was a statutorily permitted method of handling them.

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References

• therefor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• therfore

English

Etymology

From Middle English therto, from Old English þ?rt? (“thereto”), equivalent to there +? to. Cognate with Scots tharto, thereto (“thereto”), Saterland Frisian deertou (“thereto”), West Frisian dêrta (“thereto”), Dutch daartoe (“thereto; for that”), German Low German daarto (“to that; for that; thereto”), German dazu (“to that; for that; thereto”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ð???tu?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ð???tu?/

Adverb

thereto (not comparable)

1. (formal) To that.
2. (archaic or poetic) To it.
   • c. 1955-1956 (written, published c. 1997), Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

     A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

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