When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his ownsake, 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 yoursake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis,[…]
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 thysake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
The wordsake is generally used in constructions of the form "for X's sake" or "for the sake of X", where X is a noun (see the quotations above,for sake of, andfor the sake of).
Garner'sModern American Usage notes it is common to write an (unpronounced) apostrophe rather than apostrophe–ess in this construction when the noun ends in an /s/ or /z/ sound:for appearance' sake,for goodness' sake.
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“sake”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-03