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wherewith en · ADV

Pronunciation

/wɛɚˈwɪð/ US, wine–whine merger
/wɛəˈwɪð/ (UK)
/ʍɛɚˈwɪð/ (US) without the wine–whine merger
/ʍɛɚˈwɪθ/ (US) without the wine–whine merger
/wɛɚˈwɪθ/ US, wine–whine merger
(Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English wherwith. By surface analysis, where + with.

Meanings

(archaic, not-comparable) With which; with what.
- In the left there was a ſort of Engine, from the Back of which were extended twenty long Poles, reſembling the Paliſado's before your Majeſty's Court; wherewith we conjecture the Man-Mountain combs his Head, for we did not always trouble him with Queſtions, becauſe we found it a great Difficulty to make him underſtand us. 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Emperor of Lilliput, Attended by Several of the Nobility, Come to See the Author in His Confinement. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 39:
- Yee are the ſalt of the earth: But if the ſalt haue loſt his ſauour, wherewith ſhall it bee ſalted? 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:13, column 1:
- Worship we the Godhead, / Love Incarnate, Love Divine, / Worship we our Jesus,— / But wherewith for sacred sign? // Love shall be our token, / Love be yours and love be mine, / Love to God and all men, / Love the universal sign. 1885, Christina G[eorgina] Rossetti, “December 29 [Love Came Down at Christmas]”, in Time Flies: A Reading Diary […], London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge […], →OCLC, page 251:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
wherwith		alternative, obsolete	lexicographic

Translations (16)

fi millä (with which) · fr avec quoi (with which) · pl za pomocą czego (with which) · nb hvormed (with which) · it con il quale/col quale (with which) · it con la quale (with which) · pt com que (with which) · sv varmed (with which) · bn যার মাধ্যমে (with which) · de womit (with which) · nl waarmee (with which) · it con cui (with which) · bg с помощта на който (with which) · it con le quali (with which) · cs čímž (with which) · it con i quali/coi quali (with which)

wherewith en · NOUN

Pronunciation

/wɛɚˈwɪð/ US, wine–whine merger

/wɛəˈwɪð/ (UK)

/ʍɛɚˈwɪð/ (US) without the wine–whine merger

/ʍɛɚˈwɪθ/ (US) without the wine–whine merger

/wɛɚˈwɪθ/ US, wine–whine merger

(Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English wherwith. By surface analysis, where + with.

Meanings

(archaic, uncountable, usually) Something with which; the means by which.

Hath not he wherewith [translating dequoy] to be beholding vnto this his killing vivacitie? 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “An Apologie of Raymond Sebond”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 284:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
wherewiths	Number=Plur		lexicographic
wherwith		alternative, obsolete	lexicographic

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wherewiths

Number=Plur

lexicographic

wherwith

alternative, obsolete

lexicographic

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wherewith en · ADV

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wherewith en · NOUN

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