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hereby

adverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//hɪəˈbʌɪ//
  • United States//hɪɹˈbaɪ//

By this means, action or process.

adverb

  1. 1

    obsoleteNear this place; nearby.

    There is a mighty man, which wonnes hereby, / That with most fell despight and deadly hate / Seekes to subvert her Crowne and dignity […].

  2. 2

    By this means, action or process.

    I hereby declare you husband and wife.

Etymology

From here + by.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).