Meaning & use
thereat
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At that place, or as a result of that; because of that.
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The gate was left open, and thereat the sheep wandered into the road.
He made a joke, and the room burst into laughter thereat.
A note on using this word
An archaic formal adverb, now largely confined to legal documents, older literature, or deliberately old-fashioned prose.
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thereuponconsequently
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