for because
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- (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