hereupon

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8

Definition of hereupon

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (not-comparable)Immediately afterwards; at this.
    “Laſtly, One way more there may be of miſtake, at that not unuſuall among us, grounded upon a double compute of the year; the one beginning from the 25 of March, the other from the day of our birth unto the ſame again, which is the naturall account. Now hereupon many men frequently miſcaſt their daies; for in their age they diduce the account not from the day of their birth, but the year of our Lord, wherein they were born.”
    “Again, be it that some nocive or hurtful thing be towards us, must Fear of necessity follow hereupon?”
    “Hereupon it is, that these sportulary preachers are fain to sooth up their many masters […]”
    “Hereupon it fell out, after the expiring of a scantling of weeks, that Master Carvel became as jealous as a tiger, and entered into a very profound suspicion that his new-married gixy did keep a-buttock-stirring with others.”

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Etymology

From here + upon. Spelled as two words before the 16th century.

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