Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of whence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete Whence.

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  • adverb Obsolete form of whence.

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Examples

  • “Of whennes?” quod she, whan that she was freyned,

    The Canterbury Tales 2006

  • March 13, 2003 @ 7: 22 pm when using whence, please don't add from in front of it. the word means "from where." i don't care if dictionary. com wants to say that because the king james bible uses "from whence" in psalms that means it's right. the etymology is very straight-forward: from old english whennes.

    pyxopotamus Diary Entry pyxopotamus 2003

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  • from whennes whence

    March 16, 2011