Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
whence .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Whence.
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- adverb Obsolete form of
whence .
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Examples
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“Of whennes?” quod she, whan that she was freyned,
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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March 13, 2003 @ 7: 22 pm when using whence, please don't add from in front of it. the word means "from where." i don't care if dictionary. com wants to say that because the king james bible uses "from whence" in psalms that means it's right. the etymology is very straight-forward: from old english whennes.
pyxopotamus Diary Entry pyxopotamus 2003
fbharjo commented on the word whennes
from whennes whence
March 16, 2011