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单词 wherefrom
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wherefromadv.

Brit. /wɛːˈfrɒm/, U.S. /(h)wɛrˈfrəm/
Etymology: < where adv., conj., and n. Compounds 2 + from prep.
Now formal or archaic.
From which; whence.
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the world > space > direction > [adverb] > away from some thing or place > from which place
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whenceforth1590
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1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xii. 45 There is the Region of thire, wherfrom we haue wythdrawen..all this people.
1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 445 Some Calling; wherefrom he may be altogether averse, and whereto altogether vnfit.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 102 We have none others wherefrom to describe anything conceivable to our imagination.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. iv. 187 Lofty galleries; wherefrom dames of honour,..may sit and look.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xvi. 290 Wherefrom Hereward opined that Gilbert had need of him.
a1898 J. Caird Fund. Ideas Christianity (1899) I. vii. 188 Akin to the infinite source wherefrom they proceed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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