sake

noun

1. Cause, interest or account.

   “For the sake of argument”

2. Purpose or end; reason.

   “For old times' sake”

3. The benefit or regard of someone or something.

   “Ne ãd except thoſe dayes ſhulde be ſhoꝛtened / ſhulde no fleſſe be faved: Butt foꝛ the choſens ſake thoſe dayes ſhalbe ſhoꝛtened.”

   “When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.”

   “2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242a-b. But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis, […]”

4. Contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge.

   “And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.”

5. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative spelling of saké.