wherethrough
Americanconjunction
Etymology
Origin of wherethrough
First recorded in 1175–1225, wherethrough is from the Middle English word hwerthrough. See where, through
Example Sentences
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When he finally got home, he says, his blood pressure and blood sugar wherethrough the roof.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2021
I could not give his language, wherethrough ran The gamy flavor of the bookless man 620 Who shapes a word before the fancy cools, As lonely Crusoe improvised his tools.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
"So help me God and His saints, I have upon me neither bone, stone, nor witchcraft wherethrough the power and the word of God might be diminished or the devil's power increased."
From Chivalry by Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green
The sound soon ceased; belike they had struck off into these very fields wherethrough we had just marched.
From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew
Here the precipice showed an open door, wherethrough appeared in the bowels of the mountain a splendid palace, the workmanship of the Jinns, for no man had power to build aught like it.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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