Therewith
adverb
Together with, regarding or in relation to that or it.
I have a pen, therewith I can write a letter.

Often appears as...
- deal therewith
- interact therewith
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
adverb
Together with, regarding or in relation to that or it.
I have a pen, therewith I can write a letter.

Often appears as...
- deal therewith
- interact therewith
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
Definition 1 of 1

Literary Use
Used mainly in literary texts or to mimic old-fashioned English, not common in everyday conversation.

They left gold and silver, and therewith the villagers prospered.
Archaic Tone
Creates a formal or outdated tone, which might be used for effect in modern writing.

He offered advice, therewith cautioning against hastiness.
Avoid Modern Misuse
Don't use it in modern settings where simpler words like 'with it' or 'thereby' are more appropriate.

She bought a dress, therewith to wear at the banquet. (Archaic)
Literary Use
Used mainly in literary texts or to mimic old-fashioned English, not common in everyday conversation.

They left gold and silver, and therewith the villagers prospered.
Archaic Tone
Creates a formal or outdated tone, which might be used for effect in modern writing.

He offered advice, therewith cautioning against hastiness.
Avoid Modern Misuse
Don't use it in modern settings where simpler words like 'with it' or 'thereby' are more appropriate.

She bought a dress, therewith to wear at the banquet. (Archaic)
Literary Use
Used mainly in literary texts or to mimic old-fashioned English, not common in everyday conversation.

They left gold and silver, and therewith the villagers prospered.
Archaic Tone
Creates a formal or outdated tone, which might be used for effect in modern writing.

He offered advice, therewith cautioning against hastiness.
Avoid Modern Misuse
Don't use it in modern settings where simpler words like 'with it' or 'thereby' are more appropriate.

She bought a dress, therewith to wear at the banquet. (Archaic)
Compare with
accompanyat the same timein conjunction withsimultaneoustherebytogetherwith that
Quote examples
Hans Jonas
German Philosopher
The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

Quote examples
Hjalmar Schacht
German Economist
The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.

Quote examples
Kin Hubbard
American Journalist
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

Quote examples
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Quote examples
Richard Rolle
English Writer
For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

Quote examples
Ethan Allen
American Revolutionary
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

Quote examples
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Quote examples
Hans Jonas
German Philosopher
The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

Quote examples
Hjalmar Schacht
German Economist
The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.

Quote examples
Kin Hubbard
American Journalist
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

Quote examples
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Quote examples
Richard Rolle
English Writer
For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

Quote examples
Ethan Allen
American Revolutionary
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

Quote examples
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

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