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Webster 1913 Edition
Wherethrough
Where-through′
,adv.
Through which.
[R.]
“Wherethrough that I may know.” Chaucer.
Windows . . .
Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee.
wherethrough
the sunDelights to peep, to gaze therein on thee.
Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Wherethrough
WHERETHROUGH
, through which, is not in use.Definition 2024
wherethrough
wherethrough
English
Adverb
wherethrough (not comparable)
- (archaic) Through which.
- There was also a small window, wherethrough a prisoner might conceivably escape.
- (obsolete) By means of which; whereby.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.IX, Ch.xxxviij:
- in hys harte he feryd sore that Sir Trystram sholde get hym such worship in the realme of Logrys wherethorow hymselff shuld nat be able to withstonde hym.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- They perceived her to be capable of diverse passions, and agitated by many languishing and painfull motions, wherethrough she fell into wearinesse and griefe […].
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.IX, Ch.xxxviij: