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

Now, holding a lantern above his head, the deviser of the trap whereinto we, mouselike, had blindly entered, came through the cellars, following the brown man who carried Weymouth.

From The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Rohmer, Sax

This is a town whereinto the kingdom of Acus is conuerted.

From Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

Give them back safe to my Helen and to me in the land that is very far-off, whereinto there shall enter nothing that defileth.

From The King's Daughters by Holt, Emily Sarah

How much a year will be necessary, as the English say, to do this garden of Eden, whereinto shall enter only the poetry of life?”

From Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

But if a new mental life emerges from the dying form of man, it lies in a spiritual realm whereinto we have no instruments to gaze.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville