cause – English noun declension

English noun forms of cause

Noun: cause
Singularcause
Pluralcauses

Sample Sentences

  • They identified a burst pipe as the cause of the flooding.
  • We thanke you both, yet one but flatters vs,
  • As well appeareth by the cauſe you come,
  • Namely, to appeale each other of high treaſon. [1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:]
  • He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • There is no cause for alarm.
  • The end of the war was a cause for celebration.
  • He has no cause to do that.
  • God befriend us, as our cause is just. [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:]
  • The part they take against me is from zeal to the cause. [1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC:]
  • I'm not fighting for anything anymore, except myself. I'm the only cause I'm interested in. [1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Rick (Humphrey Bogart):]
  • There is much to regret about America's failure in Vietnam. The reasons are etched in black marble on the Washington Mall. But we had believed the cause that America had asked us to serve in Vietnam was a worthy one, and millions who defended it had done so honorably. [1999, John McCain, Faith of My Fathers, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 348:]
  • "I thought you were loyal to the cause, Paul."
  • “I was,” Grayson answered. “Then I saw the kind of people who share your vision, and I had a change of heart.” [2008, Drew Karpyshyn, “Epilogue”, in Mass Effect: Ascension, Del Rey Books, →ISBN, page 341:]
  • I did it not for his cause. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 7:12:]
  • What counsel give you in this weighty cause? [1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:]

Etymology

1. * From Middle English cause (also with the sense of “a thing”), borrowed from Old French cause (“a cause, a thing”), borrowed from Latin causa (“reason, sake, cause”), from Proto-Italic *kaussā, which is of unknown origin. Doublet of chose (“(law) a thing; personal property”). See accuse, excuse, recuse, ruse. Displaced native Old English intinga.
2. * From Middle English causen, Old French causer and Medieval Latin causāre. See: Middle English Nouns 'cause', Latin Nouns 'causa'.

Verbs referencing "cause"

Catalan Nouns causa, Spanish Nouns causa.