thereupon

«thereupon» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: then, at once — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

then, at once

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

Immediately after that; at once. tree →

how it differs from today

Old-fashioned; today we say "then" or "at once." The sentences also use old word order, as in "away fled the Beast."

examples

• the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the ark-cover that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the Tent; (Torah EXO.31.7, JPS 1917) tree →
• Thereupon he tore her to pieces.[291] (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• Thereupon away fled the Beast as before. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →

primary record

then

tests

manual 10.1; corpora 130 (Torah 1, tales 129, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 14.7 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «thereupon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.