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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
therein
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
herein/therein lies the problem/dilemma etc
▪ And herein lies the key to their achievements.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
lie
▪ And therein lies the key criticism of Mr Lamont's move towards an energy efficient Britain.
▪ The theory of evolution by natural selection reached out far beyond biology, and therein lies its significance.
▪ She is not afraid of the outside world, but recognizes its beauty, and therein lies a danger.
▪ Not that she dared to hope for a reference from this place! Therein lay her difficulty.
▪ My mother, Cecilia, was an only child, and therein lies a story.
▪ And therein lies the deepest fascination about records and milestones.
▪ And therein lies a Daley legend.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Kramer was interviewed for the book and is quoted therein.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And therein lies the fatal flaw.
▪ And therein, I think, lies the true fascination of the 100 metres.
▪ I remember not being able to stand outside a phone kiosk any longer and dragging out a man who was obviously gossiping therein.
▪ It may be argued that therein lies evolutionary justification for the belief that some modified form of such living can suit humans.
▪ She is not afraid of the outside world, but recognizes its beauty, and therein lies a danger.
▪ The wealth of letters and contents therein is something for which I am ever grateful.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Therein

Therein \There*in"\, adv. In that or this place, time, or thing; in that particular or respect.
--Wyclif.

He pricketh through a fair forest, Therein is many a wild beast.
--Chaucer.

Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
--Gen. ix. 7.

Therein our letters do not well agree.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
therein

"in that place, time, or thing," Old English þærin; see there + in. Similar formation in German darin.

Wiktionary
therein

adv. (context pronominal English) in that; in him/her/it

WordNet
therein

adv. (formal) in or into that thing or place; "they can read therein what our plans are" [syn: in this, in that]

Usage examples of "therein".

Therein lies the problem: textbooks cannot report accurately on the six foreign interventions described in this chapter without mentioning that the U.

Upon completion, the King should affix his signature and seal to the new constitution, thus signifying his acceptance of all conditions set forth therein.

All-Soul, but dwelling within it and assuming body therein, while the others received their allotted spheres when the body was already in existence, when their sister soul was already in rule and, as it were, had already prepared habitations for them.

Congressional action, a New York City general sales tax was applicable to sales of coal under contracts entered into within the municipality and calling for delivery therein.

Meanwhile we began to grow strong, for many joined us therein who had fled from their tyrants of the good towns and the manors of the baronage, and at last in the third year naught would please my lord but we must enter into the Kingdom of the Tower, and raise his banner in the wealthy land, and the fair cities.

Therein I treasure the spice and scent Of rich and passionate memories blent Like odours of cinnamon, sandal and clove, Of song and sorrow and life and love.

State on account of race or color, the persons therein of such race or color shall be excluded from the basis of representation.

To what extent is experimentation carried on therein merely to demonstrate what every student knows in advance?

In order still more to reduce the high price of corn, and to prevent any supply of provisions from being sent to our enemies in America, a third bill was brought in, prohibiting, for a time therein limited, the exportation of corn, grain, meal, malt, flour, bread, biscuit, starch, beef, pork, bacon, or other victual, from any of the British plantations, unless to Great Britain or Ireland, or from one colony to another.

Best looked at her reproachfully, and Doreen, who was monitress for the month, took a notebook from her pocket and made an entry therein.

But behold, I had not been long a partaker at that ordinance, but such fierce and sad temptations did attend me at all times therein, both to blaspheme the ordinance, and to wish some deadly thing to those that then did eat thereof: that lest I should at any time be guilty of consenting to these wicked and fearful thoughts, I was forced to bend myself all the while, to pray to God to keep me from such blasphemies: and also to cry to God to bless the bread and cup to them, as it went from mouth to mouth.

I have left out those which might have offended the persons who have played a sorry part therein.

State, when authorized so to do by the consent of the State which created it, to accept authority from another State to extend its railroad into such State and to receive a grant of powers to own and control, by lease or purchase, railroads therein, and to subject itself to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the second State.

And she smiled, but her face reddened so deeply that her grey eyes looked strange and light therein.

Thus, a foreign insurance company which, after revocation of its entry license, continued to collect premiums on policies formerly issued to citizens of the forum State was in fact continuing to do business in that State sufficiently to render service on it through the insurance commissioner adequate to bind it as defendant in a suit by a citizen of said State on a policy therein issued to him.