hereupon

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   immediately after this; at this point; now chiefly formal or archaic

   Hereupon the witness left the room and the hearing was adjourned.

2. 2
   adv

   on this basis or as a consequence of this

   The council received new evidence and hereupon reopened the inquiry.

A compound of here + upon, written as two words before the sixteenth century. It belongs to the formal family of here-, there-, and where- compounds used to connect statements and events.

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