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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
whenabouts en · ADV
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of whenabout.
Let it be required to find the Situation of Jupiter among the Fixed Stars in the Heavens, and also whenabouts it rises and sets, and comes to the Meridian on the 19th of May, 1757, N. S. at London.
1757, John Harris, The description and Use of the Globes, page 149:I want to know whenabouts. I told you that.
1895, New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division- First Department:And whenabouts did he start from here, do you know ? ”
1917, Madge Mears, The Candid Courtship, page 162:
whenabouts en · NOUN
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of whenabout.
In contemplating our situation, I am convinced, that the accession of Louisiana, will accelerate a division, of these States; whose whenabouts, is uncertain, but somewhen is inevitable.
1907, Bernard Christian Steiner, The Life and Correspondence of James McHenry:She hadn't even given me the time to ascertain my whenabouts.
2014, Ron Mitchell, Warped: a novel of involuntary time travel, page 51:Every instant of time has a “whenabouts,” which is an indefinite lapse in which it is, such that between this instant and any other instant whatever, there are instants of the whenabouts beyond all multitude.
2014, Carolyn Eisele, Charles S. Peirce, Mathematical Miscellanea., page 1076:but the allusion to Calais (150c), “What . . . will ye have me now a fool? . . . yet had I liever be captain of Calais,” seems also to fix the “whenabouts” of the play, inasmuch as the commencement of war with France by Henry VIII. in 1509 would naturally revive public interest in, and allusions to, Calais which since 1450 had been the only English holding in France.
1905, John Stephen Farmer, Anonymous Plays, page 254:
Relateds
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