- a variation of hereto.
hereunto
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this treaty in the French and English languages, both texts having equal force, and hereunto affix their seals.
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In testimony whereof, we hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty-sixth day of October, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-three.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
In testimony whereof we have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the Order to be hereunto affixed.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by James H. Mapleson
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, in presence of the datus and chiefs at Soung, island of Sooloo.
"In witness whereof the said parties have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals, this——um—um—day of—um——um——."
From The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts by John Burgoyne
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