"forwhy" meaning in English

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        "3": "forwhy"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English forwhy",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "forwhi"
      },
      "expansion": "forwhi",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "forhwī"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English forhwī",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "forhwȳ",
        "3": "",
        "4": "why, wherefore"
      },
      "expansion": "forhwȳ (“why, wherefore”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "for",
        "3": "why"
      },
      "expansion": "for + why",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English forwhy, forwhi, from Old English forhwī, forhwȳ (“why, wherefore”). Equivalent to for + why.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "conj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.12",
          "text": "Then did he cast to steale her thence away, / And with him beare where none of her might know: / But all in vaine, for-why he found no way / To enter in […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1863 February 22, Edward Lear, Letter from Edward Lear to Fortescue",
          "text": "But of the day—and of the weeks bygone, and of many other things—this deponent saith nil, whereby and forwhy he is going to bed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Because; for the reason that."
      ],
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          "Because",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Because; for the reason that."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "as"
        },
        {
          "word": "given that"
        },
        {
          "word": "since"
        },
        {
          "word": "because"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "forwhy"
}

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    "Middle English adverbs",
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas"
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "forwhy"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English forwhy",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "forwhi"
      },
      "expansion": "forwhi",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "forhwī"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English forhwī",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "forhwȳ",
        "3": "",
        "4": "why, wherefore"
      },
      "expansion": "forhwȳ (“why, wherefore”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "for",
        "3": "why"
      },
      "expansion": "for + why",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English forwhy, forwhi, from Old English forhwī, forhwȳ (“why, wherefore”). Equivalent to for + why.",
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "forwhy",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "conj",
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    {
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        "English compound terms",
        "English conjunctions",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Old English",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.12",
          "text": "Then did he cast to steale her thence away, / And with him beare where none of her might know: / But all in vaine, for-why he found no way / To enter in […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1863 February 22, Edward Lear, Letter from Edward Lear to Fortescue",
          "text": "But of the day—and of the weeks bygone, and of many other things—this deponent saith nil, whereby and forwhy he is going to bed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Because; for the reason that."
      ],
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          "Because",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Because; for the reason that."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
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    {
      "word": "as"
    },
    {
      "word": "given that"
    },
    {
      "word": "since"
    },
    {
      "word": "because"
    }
  ],
  "word": "forwhy"
}