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With   /wɪð/  /wɪθ/   Listen
preposition
With  prep.  With denotes or expresses some situation or relation of nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like. It is used especially:
1.
To denote a close or direct relation of opposition or hostility; equivalent to against. "Thy servant will... fight with this Philistine." Note: In this sense, common in Old English, it is now obsolete except in a few compounds; as, withhold; withstand; and after the verbs fight, contend, struggle, and the like.
2.
To denote association in respect of situation or environment; hence, among; in the company of. "I will buy with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you." "Pity your own, or pity our estate, Nor twist our fortunes with your sinking fate." "See where on earth the flowery glories lie; With her they flourished, and with her they die." "There is no living with thee nor without thee." "Such arguments had invincible force with those pagan philosophers."
3.
To denote a connection of friendship, support, alliance, assistance, countenance, etc.; hence, on the side of. "Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee."
4.
To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; sometimes equivalent to by. "That with these fowls I be all to-rent." "Thou wilt be like a lover presently, And tire the hearer with a book of words." "(He) entertained a coffeehouse with the following narrative." "With receiving your friends within and amusing them without, you lead a good, pleasant, bustling life of it."
5.
To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contrast. "Can blazing carbuncles with her compare."
6.
To denote simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. "With that she told me... that she would hide no truth from me." "With her they flourished, and with her they die." "With this he pointed to his face."
7.
To denote having as a possession or an appendage; as, the firmament with its stars; a bride with a large fortune. "A maid with clean hands." Note: With and by are closely allied in many of their uses, and it is not easy to lay down a rule by which to distinguish their uses. See the Note under By.


noun
With  n.  See Withe.





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... was evidently the chief of the party, we pulled alongside and got into his boat, where he received us with much politeness; but as he looked dissatisfied at this proceeding, we returned to our own boat, and there carried on the conference. While we were endeavouring to make ourselves understood, the other boats gradually separated, and began ...
— Account of a Voyage of Discovery - to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island • Captain Basil Hall
... before long a tall figure, who proved to be a young woman with a baby on her arm, walked slowly to meet her. Maggie looked up in the new face and thought that her Aunt Pullet and the rest were right when they called her a gipsy; for this face, with the bright dark eyes and the long hair, was really something like ...
— Tom and Maggie Tulliver • Anonymous
... in to the Menotti for most of his meals, and already poor old Carolina was busy in the hot, airless kitchen, beating up eggs for a zabajone, and Signora Carosi had gone out to buy ice for the wine and sweet cakes to be handed round with little glasses of ...
— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton
... and the stores of the unfortunate Horn were sold for one thousand three hundred and fifty reals, with which Captain Schouten obtained some provisions. On the 28th he anchored at Batavia, then called Jacutra. Here John Paterson Koen, President of the Dutch East India Company, arrived on the 31st of October; but instead of the friendly ...
— Notable Voyagers - From Columbus to Nordenskiold • W.H.G. Kingston and Henry Frith
... evil at the same time, otherwise He could not create good alone. If the creator of evil, call him by whatever name you like, had brought evil into this world, he must have created it simultaneously with God; otherwise it would have been impossible for God to create good, which can exist only as related to evil. As such they will have to admit that the Creators of good and evil sat together at the same time to create this world, which is ...
— Reincarnation • Swami Abhedananda


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