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THEREIN
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(formal) in or into that thing or place
Example:
they can read therein what our plans are
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Domain usage:
formality (compliance with formal rules)
Context examples:
A glandular secreting cell in which the apical portion of the secreting cell is cast off along with the secretory products that have accumulated therein.
(Apocrine Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
And therein may be the Kalahari's greatest challenge, say scientists Paolo D'Odorico of the University of Virginia and Greg Okin of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
Upon this incident, Reldresal, principal secretary for private affairs, who always approved himself your true friend, was commanded by the emperor to deliver his opinion, which he accordingly did; and therein justified the good thoughts you have of him.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
She had stated therein that she had fallen into adversity, and was leaving Dover for good, but had quite made up her mind to it, and was so well that nobody need be uncomfortable about her.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
So clearly could one see cañon, gorge, and precipice, and the shadows that lie therein, that one looked unconsciously for the white surf-line and bellowing caverns where the sea charges on the land.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
They placed the coffin on the ground, but he went to it and took the lid off, and a dead man lay therein.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Know then that this man has been a suitor for my hand, less as I think for my own sweet sake than because he hath ambition and had it on his mind that he might improve his fortunes by dipping into my father's strong box—though the Virgin knows that he would have found little enough therein.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the course of the day I was enrolled a member of the fourth class, and regular tasks and occupations were assigned me: hitherto, I had only been a spectator of the proceedings at Lowood; I was now to become an actor therein.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
From the left fob he took out a net almost large enough for a fisherman, but contrived to open and shut like a purse, and served him for the same use: we found therein several massy pieces of yellow metal, which, if they be real gold, must be of immense value.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Mr. W. being infirm, and it being within the bounds of probability that his decease might lead to some discoveries, and to the downfall of—HEEP'S—power over the W. family,—as I, Wilkins Micawber, the undersigned, assume—unless the filial affection of his daughter could be secretly influenced from allowing any investigation of the partnership affairs to be ever made, the said—HEEP—deemed it expedient to have a bond ready by him, as from Mr. W., for the before-mentioned sum of twelve six fourteen, two and nine, with interest, stated therein to have been advanced by—HEEP—to Mr. W. to save Mr. W. from dishonour; though really the sum was never advanced by him, and has long been replaced.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
