Definitions
a reason for wanting something done
Word origin
From Middle English sake (“sake, cause”), from Old English sacu (“cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute”), from Proto-West Germanic *saku, from Proto-Germanic *sakō (“affair, thing, charge, accusation, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to investigate”).
Used in a sentence
“For the sake of argument”
“For old times' sake”
“Ne ãd except thoſe dayes ſhulde be ſhoꝛtened / ſhulde no fleſſe be faved: Butt foꝛ the choſens ſake thoſe dayes ſhalbe ſhoꝛtened.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“For benefit”4 letters
02“Purpose or benefit”4 letters
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