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\fˈɔː], \fˈɔː], \f_ˈɔː]\
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Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
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Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
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Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
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Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
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Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
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Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.
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A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.
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Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; ntending to go to.
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Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; - generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
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One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; - the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.
By Oddity Software
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Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
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Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
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Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
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Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
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Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
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Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.
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A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.
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Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; ntending to go to.
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Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; - generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
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One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; - the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.
By Noah Webster.
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In place of; on account of; for the sake of; notwithstanding; to the number or amount of.
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Because; since.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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In the place of; for the sake of; on account of; in the direction of; with respect to; beneficial to; in quest of; notwithstanding, in spite of; in recompense of; during.
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The word by which a reason is introduced; because; on the account that.
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A prefix having generally the intensive force of the Ger. ver, signifying greatly, completely, utterly, as in for wearied, wearied out; for wounded, severely wounded; forlorn, utterly lorn or lonely; sometimes it has the force of a negative or privative; as in forbid, which means to bid a thing not to be done; forswear, to bid a thing nothing to do with (though in these examples also it might be explained as an intensive); sometimes it means amiss or badly, as in foredeem for fordeem, to judge badly of; O.E. for shapen, misshaped. In most E. words it is cognate with Ger. ver-, O.H. Ger. far-, Goth. fra-L. per-, Gr, para, par-; but in some cases, when it comes from the Fr., as in forfeit, it is from-is sometimes used for for-, so for is sometimes used for fore-, in the sense of precedence; as, forward.
By Daniel Lyons