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for one thing
i. for one thing: used parenthetically when one out of several reasons, instances, etc., is mentioned.
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1736 R. Loveday tr. G. de Coste Hymen’s Præludia VII. xi. i. 362 This for one Thing I had fully resolv'd, never to appear among Men again, and to go and run upon a Death that should prove much less cruel to me than the Life I was so weary of.
a1866 J. Keble Lett. Spiritual Counsel & Guidance (1870) 176 I could say, for one thing, make your account beforehand with this trouble coming upon you.
1937 K. A. Porter Noon Wine 38 He never got married, for one thing, and he works like a horse.
2011 A. W. Gomes in C. W. Morgan & R. A. Peterson Deity of Christ ix. 240 The church rejected the Arian christology as fatally flawed. For one thing, it could not..account for those texts that speak of Christ's antemundane creative activity.
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for one thing
e. for one thing: as one point to be noted; in the first place. Similarly for another thing.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adverb] > worthy of notice > as one point to be noted
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > firstness > [adverb] > in the first place
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1767 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener 235 These plants must now, for one thing, be duly supplied with water.
1790 By-stander 139 For one thing, he [sc. Garrick] knew that in delivering the text of an author, if he endeavoured to give his meaning a new colouring,..it would be considered as pedantic.
1820 J. Foster Ess. Evils Pop. Ignorance 21 For one thing,..there would be a vast number of things and occasions by which it would not..be called into exercise... For another thing, [etc.].
1878 J. Morley Diderot I. v. 173 For one thing, physical science had in the interval taken immense strides.
1925 Amer. Mercury Oct. 249/1 For another thing, they are both diligent students of the New Physiology, and find the primary springs of human character in the ductless glands.
1951 L. P. Hartley My Fellow Devils ix. 80 We don't want to be married in London; it's so banal for one thing.
2006 Philadelphia Inquirer 22 Dec. a17/3 For one thing, what will people call this not-quite-marriage ceremony? Unification? Civil union?
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