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  • adverb archaic Within which.

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where- +‎ within

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Examples

  • As for the dining out debate, there are situations wherewithin reason a restaurant gives you more than saved time/convenience.

    Tuesday, Nov. 17 – The Bleat. 2009

  • And I built in Urbs in Rure, for minne elskede, my shiny brows, under astrolobe from my upservatory, an erd-closet with showne ejector wherewithin to be squatquit in most covenience from her sabbath needs, when open noise should stilled be: did not I festfix with mortarboard my unniversiries, wholly rational and gottalike, sophister agen sorefister, life sizars all?

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Experience, even that it is an easy matter to sin, and that, we know, is the broad way that leads to Hell; so broad, that they that walk in it can find no Bounds or Limits in it, wherewithin to contain themselves; neither are they ever out of their way, but go which way they will, they are still in the ready way to Ruine and Destruction.

    Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life; or, Necessary Directions for Its Beginning and Progress Upon Earth... Part II. 1637-1708 1712

  • Also it’s worth noting it’s left-wing whacko protestors who generally get arrested for misbehaving during their protests and invariably break windows, trash parked cars, overturn newspaper boxes and leave garbage all over the ground wherewithin they protest their cause.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Waco 2010

  • Also it’s worth noting it’s left-wing whacko protestors who generally get arrested for misbehaving during their protests and invariably break windows, trash parked cars, overturn newspaper boxes and leave garbage all over the ground wherewithin they protest their cause.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Waco 2010

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