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Whence
Whence Whence, adv. [OE. whennes, whens (with adverbial s, properly a genitive ending; -- see -wards), also whenne, whanene, AS. hwanan, hwanon, hwonan, hwanone; akin to D. when. See When, and cf. Hence, Thence.] 1. From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively. Whence hath this man this wisdom? --Matt. xiii. 54. Whence and what art thou? --Milton. 2. From what or which place, source, material, cause, etc.; the place, source, etc., from which; -- used relatively. Grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends. --Milton. Note: All the words of this class, whence, where, whither, whereabouts, etc., are occasionally used as pronouns by a harsh construction. O, how unlike the place from whence they fell? --Milton. Note: From whence, though a pleonasm, is fully authorized by the use of good writers. From whence come wars and fightings among you? --James iv. 1. Of whence, also a pleonasm, has become obsolete.

Meaning of Whence from wikipedia

- relationship between "where/there/here", "whither/thither/hither", and "whence/thence/hence". Archaic or obsolete. Pro-form Look up locative adverb in...
- Man: Whence, How and Whither, A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation, published in 1913, is a theosophical book compiled by the second president of the...
- ato dharmāṇi dhārayan || The Gods be gracious unto us even from the place whence Vishnu strode Through the seven regions of the earth! Through all this world...
- are Avestan yārǝ "year", Gr**** ὥρα (hṓra) "year, season, period of time" (whence "hour"), Old Church Slavonic jarŭ, and Latin hornus "of this year".[citation...
- Indo-European root, with Gr**** ύδωρ (ýdor; from Ancient Gr**** ὕδωρ (hýdōr), whence English 'hydro-'), Russian вода́ (vodá), Irish uisce, and Albanian ujë....
- named bairkan. The letter shape is likely directly based on Old Italic 𐌁, whence comes also the Latin letter B. The rune is recorded in all three rune poems:...
- "Quelle est cette odeur agréable?" (in English, "Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing?") is a 17th-century traditional French Christmas carol about...
- Estudios Históricos for use in its journal Revista de Filología Española (whence its name)Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback SAMPA – Computer-readable...
- around the 3rd century BC. Linnaeus stated its wild habitat to be Sardinia, whence it was brought to England and apparently first cultivated in Britain in...
- records by name as something a clairvoyant could read. In his 1913 Man: Whence, How and Whither, Leadbeater claims to record the history of Atlantis and...