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for because

  1. (archaic) Because.
    • c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “My mothers maydes when they did ſowe & ſpyñ”, in Egerton MS 2711[1], page 50v:
      My mothers maydes when they did ſowe & ſpyñ
      they ſang ſometyme a ſong of the feld mowſe
      that forbicauſe her lyvelood was but thyñ
      Would nedes goo ſeke her townyſſh ſyſters howſe

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