conj. Also 7 for that that. [See FOR. prep. 21 b.]

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  1.  For the reason that, because. arch.

2

c. 1200.  Ormin, 3825.

          Þa wakemenn to frofrenn,
Forr þatt hi wisste wel þatt teȝȝ
  Off himm fordredde wærenn.

3

a. 1250.  Owl & Night., 365.

        And seist for þat ich fleo bi nihte
þat ich ne mai iseo bi lihte.

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c. 1400.  Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 14. In moiste bodies, for þat þe smale lymes ben feble.

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1598.  Shaks., Merry W., III. iv. 82.

                    For that I love your daughter
In such a righteous fashion as I do,
Perforce, against all checks, rebukes and manners,
I must advance the colours of my love.

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1620.  J. Wilkinson, Coroners & Sherifes, 1. The Statute of Westminster … rehearseth, For that that people of small condition … be … chosen [etc.].

7

1641.  Shute, Sarah & Hagar (1649), 116. For that her mistress had corrected her, her stomack riseth against it, and she scorneth to be used as a servant, now she is a wife.

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1782.  Cowper, Gilpin, 26.

        Quoth Mrs. Gilpin, ‘That’s well said,
And, for that wine is dear,
We will be furnish’d with our own,
  Which is both bright and clear.’

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1894.  Yellow Bk., I. 67. It is hard to trace folly, for that it is inconsequent, to its start.

10

  ¶ The mod. use of for that in reported speech (when both words are conjs.) is to be distinguished from the above.

11

1774.  Goldsm., Grecian Hist., II. 8. The courier conjured him, in the name of the person who wrote the letters, that he should read them forthwith, for that they contained matter of great importance.

12

1821.  Keats, Lamia, 304.

                    Bidding him raise
His drooping head, and clear his soul of doubt,
For that she was a woman.

13

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng. (1889), II. xvii. 282. Just before the attack he had told them to go to their supper and to take their rest, for that nothing more would be done that day.

14

1873.  Tristram, Moab, i. 6. Suggested that we were needlessly encumbering ourselves, for that sugar, coffee and rice might be procured more easily in the villages of Moab!

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  † 2.  For the purpose that; in order that. Obs.

16

c. 1200.  Ormin, 1018.

        Þatt waȝherifft wass henngedd tær,
  Forr þatt itt hidenn shollde
All [etc.].

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c. 1314.  Guy Warw. (A.), 146.

        Al folk he dede him loue,
For þat noman schuld him schone.

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1428.  in Surtees Misc. (1890), 7. For þt þair praiers suld stand John Lyllyng to availl.

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1572.  R. H., trans. Lauaterus’ Ghostes (1596), 104. I thought good to repeate these things of Purgatorie somewhat at large, the rather for that the reader might see, that their Doctours do disagree in a matter of great weight, by which they haue both robbed men of their wealth, and plunged them into very great myserie.

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