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Why-for, why for. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Why-for, why for advb. and conj. phr.

1   † 1.  rel. adv.: FORWHY A. 3, WHEREFORE 4, WHY 5. Obs.

2   In quot. with peculiar construction, thus = ‘of which.’

3 a. 1450.  Knt. de la Tour (1868), 67. An aungelle showed hym the payne … that she was made to suffre…, the cause why for he sawe perfitly, how a deuelle helde her bi … the here of her hede.

4   † 2.  conj. = FOR B. 2, FORWHY B. 2. Obs.

5 c. 1450.  Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.), 234. Many of ȝow be dome; why? for ȝe wole not redresse, Be mowthe ȝour dedys mortal.

6 c. 1489.  Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, xxvi. 545. Ye have lerned a fowle crafte, that ys, that ye can speke shrewdly wythoute a cause lawfull. Why for I have herde that ye have called me & my broder the sones of a traytour.

7   3.  as dependent interrog. adv.: = FORWHY A. 2, WHEREFORE 2, WHY 2. dial.

8 1787.  Grose, Prov. Gloss., Why-vore, or For why-vore, wherefore.

9 1801.  Marvellous Love-Story, II. 232. Some folks calls’t Crazy Castle, but I never could larn whyfore.

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