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thereagain

adverb

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adv

Etymology: From Middle English theragayn, theragen, therongæn.

  1. In opposition to it; against one's course.

    14th c, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Friar's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 1870, D. Laing Purves (editor), The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene, with Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser, page 85, Withoutë him we have no might, certain, / If that him list to standë thereagain.

    c. 1400-1425, Anonymous, The Brome play of Abraham and Isaac, Editor and edition date (post 1970) not identified, W. W. Norton, page 9, A, Lord, my heart riseth thereagain: / I find it not in my heart to smite.