英语释义
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prep. In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration
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of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes
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prep. Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action;
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the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state;
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the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
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prep. Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the
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end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves,
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prep. Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which,
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anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side
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of; -- opposed to against.
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prep. Indicating that toward which the action of anything is
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directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.
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prep. Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything
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acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a
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compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
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prep. Indicating that in the character of or as being which
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anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
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prep. Indicating that instead of which something else controls in
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the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is
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done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of;
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-- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
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prep. Indicating the space or time through which an action or
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state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
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prep. Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of
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which, anything is done.
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conj. Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old
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English, the reason of anything.
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conj. Since; because; introducing a reason of something before
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advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of
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an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly
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equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is
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sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by
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n. One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side;
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that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis
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of against, and commonly used in connection with it.