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wherefrom, adv. Now formal or arch.|hwɛəˈfrɒm|
[f. where 15 + from prep.]
From which; whence.
1490Caxton Eneydos xii. 45 There is the Region of thire, wherfrom we haue wythdrawen..all this people. 1621Sanderson Serm., 1 Cor. vii. 24 (1674) I. 205 Some Calling; wherefrom he may be altogether averse, and whereto altogether unfit. 1768Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 40 We have none others wherefrom to describe anything conceivable to our imagination. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iv. iv, Lofty galleries; wherefrom dames of honour..may sit and look. 1865Kingsley Herew. xvi, Wherefrom Hereward opined that Gilbert had need of him. 1893J. Caird Fundam. Ideas Chr. vii, Akin to the infinite source wherefrom they proceed. |