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# thereupon

«thereupon» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **then, at once** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

then, at once

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

Immediately after that; at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thereupon/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Old-fashioned; today we say "then" or "at once." The sentences also use old word order, as in "away fled the Beast."

### examples

- the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the ark-cover that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the Tent; (Torah EXO.31.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thereupon/#x1)
- Thereupon he tore her to pieces.[291] (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thereupon/#x2)
- Thereupon away fled the Beast as before. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thereupon/#x3)

### primary record

then

### tests

manual 10.1; corpora 130 (Torah 1, tales 129, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 14.7 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thereupon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thereupon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.