thus

[Thus]

Use the adverb thus in place of words like therefore or so when you want to sound proper.

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The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.

Noun
an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation

Adverb
(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true"; "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go"; "the witness is biased and

Adverb
in the way indicated; "hold the brush so"; "set up the pieces thus"; (`thusly'' is a nonstandard variant)


n.
The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.

adv.
In this or that manner; on this wise.

adv.
To this degree or extent; so far; so; as, thus wise; thus peaceble; thus bold.


Thus

Thus , n. [L. thus, better tus, frankincense. See Thurible.] The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.

Thus

Thus , adv. [OE. thus, AS. us; akin to OFries. & OS. thus, D. dus, and E. that; cf. OHG. sus. See That.] 1. In this or that manner; on this wise.
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Thus God the heaven created, thus the earth.
2. To this degree or extent; so far; so; as, thus wise; thus peaceble; thus bold. Shak.
Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds.

The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.

In this or that manner; on this wise.

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Usage Examples

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.

By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

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