| "Therefor" is archaic and little used today. It is somewhat like
other combined words like "henceforward," "therefrom," "hereinafter,"
etc. "Therefor" can literally be substituted for "for that," "for
this," and "for it." Examples:
The car stopped in the fast lane; the reason therefor was a
broken axle.
The consequences therefor are too horrible to contemplate.
The latter sentence means "the consequences _for that_ are too horrible
to contemplate." The sentence, "the consequences, therefore, are
too horrible to contemplate" means something else entirely. It
means "Hence, the consequences are too horrible..." or "It follows
from what was said before, that the consequences..."
Bernie
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| I'll bet with a little effort, we clever computer people could recycle
this word and maybe even replace *functionality*.
If you wanted to ask why a program existed, you might say, "What
is it therefor?" We could then specify all the therfor's associated
with a product......
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| Like .1 said there's a big difference in meaning. There's also a
difference in stress. 'Therefor' - like herein, whereas, thereto and
many other combinations of a pronoun of place with a preposition - has
stress on the second syllable, whereas 'therefore' meaning 'for
that reason' is usually stressed on the first syllable.
A very stilted example, a bit more formal than bernie's:
A therefore B
B. The reason therefor is A.
I can think of lots of contexts to use 'therefor' in, but none where it
wouldn't be clearer to use some other form of words.
bob
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