Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Whereunto.

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  • adverb archaic Until what; until which.

Etymologies

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where- +‎ until

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Examples

  • And do not let your heart be disquieted within you, that this victim, who is rescued from the horns of the altar, whereuntil she was fast bound by the chains of human law, is now to be driven beyond the bounds of our land.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • Under correction, sir, we know whereuntil it doth amount.

    Love’s Labour ’s Lost 2004

  • O Lord, sir! the parties themselves, the actors, sir, will show whereuntil it doth amount: for mine own part, I am, as they say, but to parfect one man in one poor man, Pompion the Great, sir.

    Act V. Scene II. Love’s Labour’s Lost 1914

  • Under correction, sir, we know whereuntil it doth amount.

    Act V. Scene II. Love’s Labour’s Lost 1914

  • And do not let your heart be disquieted within you, that this victim, who is rescued from the horns of the altar, whereuntil she was fast bound by the chains of human law, is now to be driven beyond the bounds of our land.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • And do not let your heart be disquieted within you, that this victim, who is rescued from the horns of the altar, whereuntil she was fast bound by the chains of human law, is now to be driven beyond the bounds of our land.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Under correction, sir, we know whereuntil it doth amount.

    Love's Labour's Lost 1594

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