When they heard this, they were pricked in their
heart. --Acts ii. 37.
But know this, that if the good man of the house had
known in what watch the thief would come, he would
have watched. --Matt. xxiv.
43.
2. As an adjective, this has the same demonstrative force as
the pronoun, but is followed by a noun; as, this book;
this way to town.
Note: This may be used as opposed or correlative to that, and
sometimes as opposed to other or to a second this. See
the Note under {That}, 1.
This way and that wavering sails they bend.
--Pope.
A body of this or that denomination is produced.
--Boyle.
Their judgment in this we may not, and in that we
need not, follow. --Hooker.
Consider the arguments which the author had to
write this, or to design the other, before you
arraign him. --Dryden.
Thy crimes . . . soon by this or this will end.
--Addison.
Note: This, like a, every, that, etc., may refer to a number,
as of years, persons, etc., taken collectively or as a
whole.
This twenty years have I been with thee.. --Gen.
xxxi. 38.
I have not wept this years; but now My mother
comes afresh into my eyes. --Dryden.