whereinto

American  

[wair-in-too, hwair-, wair-in-too, hwair-] / wɛərˈɪn tu, ʰwɛər-, ˌwɛər ɪnˈtu, ˌʰwɛər- /

conjunction

1. into which.

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whereinto British  

/ wɛərˈɪntuː /

adverb

1. into what place?

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pronoun

1. into which place

Etymology

Origin of whereinto

First recorded in 1530–40; where + into

Example Sentences

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whereinto

He made in the side of each animal an opening, whereinto he crept, and so warmed it into life.

From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by Adams, John Turvill

Then marched they toward the roade, whereinto they entered softly, where were six warders, whom one of them asked, saying, who was there? quoth Fox and his company, all friendes.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard

“But methinks, friend, the Lord works not many miracles to save even His own from traps whereinto they have run with their eyes open.”

From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.

At length my ignorant sleepes, brought me into a thick wood, whereinto being a pritty way entred, I could not tell how to get out of it.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert

For if they haue assumed a deade bodie, whereinto they lodge themselues, they can easely inough open without dinne anie Doore or Window, and enter in thereat.

From Daemonologie. by James I, King of England