sake

Cause, interest or account.

• For the sake of argument
• I hope you're right, for all our sakes!

Purpose or end; reason.

• for old times' sake
• It's not worth risking your life for the sake of getting there a few minutes earlier.

The benefit or regard of someone or something.

• 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242a-b. But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis, […]

Contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge.

• And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all th

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