therefrom
/ˌðeəˈfɹɒm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.45 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
From that.
Formal
Example Sentences
- "No man ever deliberately does injury to another without himself suffering therefrom, at some future day, as much as the party he has injured; although it may be after a different fashion."
- "Therefrom Boshy's saving propensities, being but the idiosyncrasies of the rich, were mercifully endured and spoken of by Mr. Civil."
- "Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor."
- "Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom"
Etymology
From Middle English therfrom, þærfrom, þarvram (also as ther-fro, þer-fro, þarfra), equivalent to there + from. Cognate with Danish derfra, Swedish därifrån, Norwegian Bokmål derfra, Norwegian Nynorsk derifrå, derfrå, Icelandic þarfrá. Compare Saterland Frisian deerfon, West Frisian dêrfan, Dutch daarvan, German Low German daarvan, German davon.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: therfrom
Usage
Phrases
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form