Definition of sake

"sake" in the noun sense

1. sake, interest

a reason for wanting something done

"for your sake"

"died for the sake of his country"

"in the interest of safety"

"in the common interest"

2. sake, saki, rice beer

Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice usually served hot

3. sake

the purpose of achieving or obtaining

"for the sake of argument"

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Quotations for sake

Danger for danger's sake is senseless. [ Leigh Hunt ]

For fashion's sake, as dogs go to church. [ Proverb ]

Many kiss the child for the nurse's sake. [ Proverb ]

Labour for labour's sake is against nature. [ Locke ]

And love the sin for the dear sinner's sake. [ Juvenal ]

The slender acacia would not shake
One long milk-bloom on the tree;
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea;
But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake.
They sighed for the dawn and thee. [ Tennyson ]

O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake
The fool throws up his interest in both worlds. [ Blair ]

Few take wives for God's sake, or for fair looks. [ Proverb ]

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two. [ Calderon ]

Good kings never make war but for the sake of peace. [ Proverb ]

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying. [ Pascal ]

To steal the pig, and give away the feet for God's sake. [ Spanish Proverb ]

So much is mine as I enjoy, and give away for God's sake. [ Proverb ]

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving. [ Joseph Roux ]

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

You are not good, if you are so only for the sake of praise. [ Proverb ]

If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for' his sake. [ Buddha ]

The virtuous action, done for virtue's sake alone, is truly laudable. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

We must sometimes cease to adhere to our own opinion for the sake of peace. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

All merit ceases the moment we perform an act for the sake of its consequences.
Truly, in this respect we have our reward. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

We should always forgive, - the penitent for their sake, the impenitent for our own. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of everything beautiful. [ Plato ]

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. [ Lamartine ]

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last. [ William Penn ]

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. [ Bible ]

One faithful friend is enough for a man's self; it is much to meet with such a one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others. [ De Bruyere ]

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend. [ Cicero ]

Consider it to be the height of impiety to prefer life to honour, and, for the sake of merely living, to sacrifice the objects of living. [ Juv ]

O cursed lust of gold; when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds, First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come. [ Blair ]

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. [ Hosea Ballou ]

It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy. [ Chief Justice Mansfield ]

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures. [ Pascal ]

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character. [ Shenstone ]

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. [ Beecher ]

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Let a woman once give you a task, and you are hers, heart and soul; all your care and trouble lend new charms to her for whose sake they are taken. To rescue, to revenge, to instruct, or protect a woman is all the same as to love her. [ Richter ]

What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice. [ Ruskin ]

Method, we are aware, is an essential ingredient in every discourse designed for the instruction of mankind; but it ought never to force itself on the attention as an object - never appear to be an end instead of an instrument; or beget a suspicion of the sentiments being introduced for the sake of the method, not the method for the sentiments. [ Robert Hall ]

sake in Scrabble®

The word sake is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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sake in Words With Friends™

The word sake is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words containing the sequence sake

Words that start with sake (2 words)

Words that end with sake (4 words)

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Shorter words in sake

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Longer words containing sake

forsake forsaken forsakenly

forsake forsaken forsakenness

forsake forsaken godforsaken

forsake forsaken unforsaken

forsake forsaker forsakers

forsake forsakes

keepsake keepsakes

namesake namesakes

sakes forsakes

sakes keepsakes

sakes namesakes