Meaning of thenabouts | Babel Free

Definitions

about then

not-comparable, obsolete

Examples

“It has been conjectured that Aram got much of Cark’s money, and therewith paid off a mortgage; but this is only conjecture; and as he got a legacy by the will of an old lady thenabouts, it is as fair to presume that this money, so applied, was his own⟳.”

“Our friend, Simon Jennings, could not sleep⟳ that night ; his reveries and scheming lasted from the rum-punch’s final drop, at ten p.m., to circiter two, a.m., and then, or thenabouts, the devil hinted “ steal⟳ it ;” and so, not till nearly four, he began to shut⟳ his eyes and dream⟳ again, as his usual fashion was, of adding up receipts in five figures, and of counting out old Bridget’s hoarded gold.”

“Seven years ago my wife, Rupert Brooke and I were eastbound from New York, and—then or thenabouts—I wrote from shipboard an open⟳ letter on the theater to the Editor of Drama.”

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