ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hereupon

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Hereupon is an adverb meaning Immediately afterwards; at this.

Meaning

Immediately afterwards; at this.

Example Sentences

Hereupon it is, that these sportulary preachers are fain to sooth up their many masters […]
Again, be it that some nocive or hurtful thing be towards us, must Fear of necessity follow hereupon?
Hereupon it fell out, after the expiring of a scantling of weeks, that Master Carvel became as jealous as a tiger, and entered into a very profound suspicion that his new-married gixy did keep a-buttock-stirring with others.
Laſtly, One way more there may be of miſtake, at that not unuſuall among us, grounded upon a double compute of the year; the one beginning from the 25 of March, the other from the day of our birth unto the ſame again, which is the naturall account. Now hereupon many men frequently miſcaſt their daies; for in their age they diduce the account not from the day of their birth, but the year of our Lord, wherein they were born.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include thereupon, hereat, instanter, forthwithal, afterwhile, immediately.

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