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# thereupon

adverb

«thereupon» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

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

### Then and now

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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thereupon/#x3)

### Note

Today: then, at once.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «thereupon» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thereupon/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«thereupon» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/thereupon.html) on Mova free.