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Webster 1913 Edition
Hereby
Here-by′
,adv.
1.
By means of this.
And
hereby
we do know that we know him. 1 John ii. 3.
2.
Close by; very near.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hereby
HEREBY'
,adv.
Hereby we became acquainted with the nature of things.
Definition 2024
hereby
hereby
English
Adverb
hereby (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Near this place; nearby.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:
- There is a mighty man, which wonnes hereby, / That with most fell despight and deadly hate / Seekes to subvert her Crowne and dignity […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:
- (formal) By this means, action or process.
- I hereby declare you husband and wife.
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