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Webster 1913 Edition


Wherethrough

Where-through′

,
adv.
Through which.
[R.]
Wherethrough that I may know.”
Chaucer.
Windows . . .
wherethrough
the sun
Delights 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)

  1. (archaic) Through which.
    There was also a small window, wherethrough a prisoner might conceivably escape.
  2. (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 [].