Definition of Cause

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Definition of Cause

Cause

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing.

Sake; interest; advantage.

A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.

Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general.

The side of a question, which is espoused, advocated, and upheld by a person or party; a principle which is advocated; that which a person or party seeks to attain.

To effect as an agent; to produce; to be the occasion of; to bring about; to bring into existence; to make; -- usually followed by an infinitive, sometimes by that with a finite verb.

To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.

Abbreviation of Because.

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Cause Quotations

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Thomas Jefferson

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham Lincoln

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
C. S. Lewis

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
George Carlin

Cause Translations

cause in Afrikaans is aandoen, rede, veroorsaak
cause in Dutch is maken, doen, laten doen, laten
cause in French is causer, causons, causent, rendre, causez, cause
cause in German is Grund/verursachen, Ursache
cause in Italian is cagionare, ragione, cagione, causo
cause in Latin is indo (past indidi), facio, addo, infero
cause in Portuguese is causar, causa
cause in Spanish is causa, causar, ocasionar, originar

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