whereas
conjunction
while on the contrary.
whereases
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pluralof whereas.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A frivolous, meaningless declaration filled with whereases and therefores to pretend our boys in blue were winners?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2020
After four resonant whereases, the resolution reached the two sore spots.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee drafted an eloquent joint resolution with many whereases describing the brutality of the Spanish conflict, the danger of its dragging the U. S. into war. etc., etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is full of "whereases" and "peradventures" and "heretofores" and similar swank, and there aren't any stops in it.
From Uneasy Money by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Besides Philip hated the copying of pleadings, and he was certain that a life of "whereases" and "aforesaids" and whipping the devil round the stump, would be intolerable.
From The Gilded Age, Part 2. by Charles Dudley Warner
