forwhy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 6
Definition of forwhy
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
conj
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(obsolete)Because; for the reason that.
“Then did he cast to steale her thence away, / And with him beare where none of her might know: / But all in vaine, for-why he found no way / To enter in […]”
“But of the day—and of the weeks bygone, and of many other things—this deponent saith nil, whereby and forwhy he is going to bed.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English forwhy, forwhi, from Old English forhwī, forhwȳ (“why, wherefore”). Equivalent to for + why.
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