Laurence Housman

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

English Playwright

Josiah Royce

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

American Philosopher

Xun Kuang

Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.

Chinese Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

French Philosopher

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.

American Businessman

Use 'thereupon' to indicate the next action in a sequence of events.

Sequence Marker

'Thereupon' can give a sentence an old-fashioned or formal tone.

Quaint Feel

'Thereupon' is often used in legal or official contexts to denote immediate consequence.

Legal Usage

 stated basically that by woman's behavior ye shall know them that is any woman showing disrespect to northern soldiers could be treated as a prostitute Butler seemed to be legalizing sexual assault President Davis Jefferson Davis thereupon branded