thus

adv.in this manner
adv.accordingly

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Word Origin & History

Old English þus "in this way," related to þæt "that" and this, but the exact connection and Proto-Germanic history are obscure. Cognate with Old Saxon and Old Frisian thus, Middle Dutch and Dutch dus. Colloquial adverb thusly first recorded 1865.

Example Sentences for thus

The request, thus aided by flattery, was almost unanimously granted.

"Yet it is ever thus, when Plato is with us," exclaimed Pericles.

It is ever thus, when we disobey the gods, to please mortals.

It was thus Billy Brue found him at the end of his second day's search.

"No, I suppose not," said Hester, thus disclaiming the title.

He became conscious of sympathising generously with all men not thus equipped.

He had discovered years before that he was sometimes able thus to puzzle her momentarily.

Thus leaning on his uncle, he was escorted back to the hostel.

I ever told you she would bring you to shame, thus left to herself.

Thus manifestly a negligible factor, it is also one tending to extinction.

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