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HEREUPON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hereupon mean?
• HEREUPON (adverb)
The adverb HEREUPON has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: HEREUPON used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Immediately after this
Context example:
hereupon, the passengers stumbled aboard
Context examples
Hereupon she was terrified, and said: Ah, heavens!
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I was so much dismayed by these words, and particularly by the repetition of the last unknown one, which was a kind of rattle in his throat, that I could make no answer; hereupon the old man, still holding me by the hair, repeated: Oh, what do you want?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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