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- pronoun Obsolete spelling of
which .
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Examples
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And as touching that whiche is spoken thence that the saide lady Katherine shold not be honorablie and well intreated as to suche a p [er] sonage aperteyneth.
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Wel may that lond be called delytable and a fructuous lond, that was bebledd2 and moysted with the precyouse blode of oure Lord Jesu Crist; the whiche is the same lond, that oure lord behighten us in heritage.
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Wel may that lond be called delytable and a fructuous lond, that was bebledd448 and moysted with the precyouse blode of oure Lord Jesu Crist; the whiche is the same lond, that oure lord behighten us in heritage.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And speke we of sir gawayne, the whiche is the xvi. book_.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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_Thus endeth thistory of the Sancgreal, that was breuely drawen oute of Frensshe in to Englysshe, the whiche is a story cronycled for one of the truest and the holyest that is in thys world, the which is the xvii. book_.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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On both the sydes of this strayght are great and hygh mountaynes couered with snowe, beyonde the whiche is the enteraunce into the sea of Sur ....
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 Various 1885
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Soneday, the whiche was a ful trobly wet day, he was crowned at Westm 'with michel ryalte.
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Wel may that lond be called delytable and a fructuous lond, that was bebledd [Footnote: Coloured with blood] and moysted with the precyouse blode of oure Lord Jesu Crist; the whiche is the same lond, that oure lord behighten us in heritage.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The whiche is the strongest, and the beste provision that is made, to purpose to make the souldiour obstinate to faight: whiche obstinatenesse is increased by the confidence, and love of the Capitaine, or of the countrie.
Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498
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I would also that thei should learne to swimme, the whiche is a thyng verie profitable: for that there be not alwaies bridges over rivers, boates be not alwaies readie: so that thy army not knowyng howe to swime, remaineth deprived of many commodities: and many occasions to woorke well, is taken awaie.
Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498
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