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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  This  \This\  ([th][i^]s),  pron.  &  a.;  pl  {These}  ([th][=e]z). 
  [OE.  this  thes,  AS  [eth][=e]s,  masc.,  [eth]e['o]s,  fem., 
  [eth]is,  neut.;  akin  to  OS  these  D.  deze,  G.  dieser,  OHG. 
  diser,  deser,  Icel.  [thorn]essi;  originally  from  the  definite 
  article  +  a  particle  -se,  -si;  cf  Goth.  sai  behold.  See 
  {The},  {That},  and  cf  {These},  {Those}.] 
  1.  As  a  demonstrative  pronoun,  this  denotes  something  that  is 
  present  or  near  in  place  or  time,  or  something  just 
  mentioned,  or  that  is  just  about  to  be  mentioned. 
 
  When  they  heard  this  they  were  pricked  in  their 
  heart.  --Acts  ii  37. 
 
  But  know  this  that  if  the  good  man  of  the  house  had 
  known  in  what  watch  the  thief  would  come  he  would 
  have  watched.  --Matt.  xxiv. 
  43. 
 
  2.  As  an  adjective,  this  has  the  same  demonstrative  force  as 
  the  pronoun,  but  is  followed  by  a  noun  as  this  book; 
  this  way  to  town. 
 
  Note:  This  may  be  used  as  opposed  or  correlative  to  that  and 
  sometimes  as  opposed  to  other  or  to  a  second  this  See 
  the  Note  under  {That},  1. 
 
  This  way  and  that  wavering  sails  they  bend. 
  --Pope. 
 
  A  body  of  this  or  that  denomination  is  produced. 
  --Boyle. 
 
  Their  judgment  in  this  we  may  not  and  in  that  we 
  need  not  follow  --Hooker. 
 
  Consider  the  arguments  which  the  author  had  to 
  write  this  or  to  design  the  other  before  you 
  arraign  him  --Dryden. 
 
  Thy  crimes  .  .  .  soon  by  this  or  this  will  end 
  --Addison. 
 
  Note:  This  like  a,  every,  that  etc.,  may  refer  to  a  number, 
  as  of  years,  persons,  etc.,  taken  collectively  or  as  a 
  whole. 
 
  This  twenty  years  have  I  been  with  thee..  --Gen. 
  xxxi.  38. 
 
  I  have  not  wept  this  years;  but  now  My  mother 
  comes  afresh  into  my  eyes.  --Dryden.




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