Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- conjunction Through, because of, or during which.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Through which, in any sense of the word through.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb rare Through which.
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- adverb archaic Through
which . - adverb obsolete By means of which;
whereby .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough gleams the untravelled world.
The Blog of War Matthew Currier Burden 2006
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For when Evelake was in the battle there was a cloth set afore the shield, and when he was in the greatest peril he let put away the cloth, and then his enemies saw a figure of a man on the Cross, wherethrough they all were discomfit.
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And anon as he was come, Merlin desired of King Arthur that Sir Gawaine should be sworn to tell of all his adventures, and how he slew the lady, and how he would give no mercy unto the knight, wherethrough the lady was slain.
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Alas! sir, said the lady, mine arm is out of lithe, wherethrough I must needs rest me.
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Bagdemagus sendeth you greeting, and bade that ye should bear this shield, wherethrough great adventures should befall.
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This Solomon had an evil wife, wherethrough he weened that there had been no good woman, and so he despised them in his books.
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Tristram should get him such worship in the realm of Logris wherethrough that he himself should not be able to withstand him.
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All this Sir Launcelot saw and beheld, for he slept not verily; and he heard him say: O sweet Lord, when shall this sorrow leave me? and when shall the holy vessel come by me, wherethrough I shall be blessed?
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Sir Gaheris upon the brain-pans, wherethrough they were slain in the field; howbeit in very truth Sir Launcelot saw them not, and so were they found dead among the thickest of the press.
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So when that day came she showed Alisander a postern wherethrough he should flee into a garden, and there he should find his armour and his horse.
janejetson commented on the word wherethrough
through which
February 27, 2010