On-account-of Definition

On-account-of Sentence Examples

• The specific name was given on account of the extraordinary swiftness of the animal.

• The plague of 1665, carried hither from London, almost depopulated this village, and the name of the rector, William Mompesson, attracted wide notice on account of his brave attempts to combat the outbreak.

• By the end of the 15th century it had become one of the most prosperous towns of Holland, on account of its fisheries and its cloth-trade.

• The second method, which he calls the "Promptuarium Multiplicationis" on account of its being the most expeditious of all for the performance of multiplications, involves the use of a number of lamellae or little plates of metal disposed in a box.

• In addition to the thegns there were others who were thegns on account of their birth, and thus thegnhood was partly inherited and partly acquired.