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 virtually only 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–, retrieved3 July 2023
2025 April 23, Orla Guerin, “More dan 150 pipo injure as earthquakes shake buildings for Turkey Istanbul”, inBBC News Pidgin[2]:
Istanbul govnor office say at least 151 pipo injure afta dem jump from high placessake of panic wey di earthquake cause.
The Istanbul governor's office says at least 151 people were injured after they jumped from high placesbecause of the panic that the earthquake caused.
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