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Cause   /kɑz/  /kɔz/   Listen
Cause

noun
1.
Events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something.
2.
A justification for something existing or happening.  Synonyms: grounds, reason.  "They had good reason to rejoice"
3.
A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end.  Synonyms: campaign, crusade, drive, effort, movement.  "They worked in the cause of world peace" , "The team was ready for a drive toward the pennant" , "The movement to end slavery" , "Contributed to the war effort"
4.
Any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results.  Synonyms: causal agency, causal agent.
5.
A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.  Synonyms: case, causa, lawsuit, suit.
verb
(past & past part. caused; pres. part. causing)
1.
Give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally.  Synonyms: do, make.  "Make a stir" , "Cause an accident"
2.
Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner.  Synonyms: get, have, induce, make, stimulate.  "My children finally got me to buy a computer" , "My wife made me buy a new sofa"



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"Cause" Quotes from Famous Books



... are only media of his communion with God, the source of life—not either the beginning or the end of his communion. They have no life in themselves, since their being is in God, and, of themselves, can impart none. They are in the order of second causes, and second causes, without the first cause, are nought. Communion which stops with them, which takes them as the principle and end, instead of media, as they are, is the communion of death, not of life. As religion includes all that relates to communion ...
— The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny • A. O. Brownson

... it had been in tens of thousands of English households; for since the people of the Netherlands first rose against the Spanish yoke the hearts of the Protestants of England had beat warmly in their cause, and they had by turns been moved to admiration at the indomitable courage with which the Dutch struggled for independence against the might of the greatest power in Europe, and to horror and indignation at the pitiless cruelty ...
— By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) • G.A. Henty

... upon these escorts and sometimes carrying off the voters—or enabling them to escape. One of Moore's friends, Mr. Browne, afterwards Lord Oranmore, wrote: "I now see we owe our lives to the priests, as they can excite the whole people against us whenever they like. Whatever may be the cause, ...
— Irish Books and Irish People • Stephen Gwynn

... accompanied by several of his household. His destination is believed to be the Castle of Zenda, but the party travelled by road and not by train. MM De Gautet, Bersonin, and Detchard followed an hour later, the last-named carrying his arm in a sling. The cause of his wound is not known, but it is suspected that he has fought a duel, probably incidental to a ...
— The Prisoner of Zenda • Anthony Hope

... rotation, takes a bend to the west, and which evidently runs from the opening between Cape Chelyuskin and the northern extremity of Novaya Zemlya, towards the east side of this island, and perhaps may be the cause why the large masses of drift ice are pressed during summer against the east coast of Novaya Zemlya. According to my own experience and the uniform testimony of the walrus-hunters, this ice melts away ...
— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II • A.E. Nordenskieold


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