Whence

/ʍɛns/ · adverb

Meaning

(archaic, formal or literary) From where; from which place or source..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic, formal or literary) From where; from which place or source.
2. (literary, poetic) Used for introducing the result of a fact that has just been stated; thence

Example Sentences

Whence came I?

"Pork" comes from French, whence we get most of our modern cooking terms.

Go to whence you came!

That envy whence comes hate.

Ieſus anſwered, and ſaid vnto them, Though I beare record of my ſelfe, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I goe: but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I goe.

I could plainly diſcover from whence one Family derives a long Chin; why a ſecond hath abounded with Knaves for two Generations, and Fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be Sharpers.

Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed?

[W]hat greatly encouraged me, it was in an opposite direction from that whence the blind man had made his appearance, and whither he had presumably returned.

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