All 3 Uses
therefore
in
The Pardoner's Tale
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- Therefore my theme is yet, and ever was, —Radix malorum est cupiditas.†
*therefore = for that reason
- This olde man gan look on his visage, And saide thus; "For that I cannot find A man, though that I walked unto Ind, Neither in city, nor in no village go, That woulde change his youthe for mine age; And therefore must I have mine age still As longe time as it is Godde's will.†
- *except In Holy Writ ye may yourselves read; 'Against* an old man, hoar upon his head, *to meet Ye should arise:' therefore I you rede,* *advise Ne do unto an old man no harm now, No more than ye would a man did you In age, if that ye may so long abide.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(therefore) for that reason (what follows is so because of what was just said)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)