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By-end   Listen
noun
By-end  n.  (Written also bye-end)  Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage. ""Profit or some other by-end.""





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... Clerk's Guide for 1731, the writer laments over the diminished status of his order, and states that "the clerk is oftentimes chosen rather for his poverty, to prevent a charge to the parish, than either for his virtue or skill; or else for some by-end or purpose, more than for the immediate Honour and Service of ...
— The Parish Clerk (1907) • Peter Hampson Ditchfield


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