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Whence
Whence Whence, adv. [OE. whennes, whens (with adverbial s, properly a genitive ending; -- see -wards), also whenne, whanene, AS. hwanan, hwanon, hwonan, hwanone; akin to D. when. See When, and cf. Hence, Thence.] 1. From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively. Whence hath this man this wisdom? --Matt. xiii. 54. Whence and what art thou? --Milton. 2. From what or which place, source, material, cause, etc.; the place, source, etc., from which; -- used relatively. Grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends. --Milton. Note: All the words of this class, whence, where, whither, whereabouts, etc., are occasionally used as pronouns by a harsh construction. O, how unlike the place from whence they fell? --Milton. Note: From whence, though a pleonasm, is fully authorized by the use of good writers. From whence come wars and fightings among you? --James iv. 1. Of whence, also a pleonasm, has become obsolete.

Meaning of Whences from wikipedia

- Man: Whence, How and Whither, A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation, published in 1913, is a theosophical book compiled by the second president of the...
- relationship between here, hence, hither; there, thence, thither; and where, whence, whither. Archaic or obsolete. Pro-form Look up locative adverb in Wiktionary...
- are Avestan yārǝ "year", Gr**** ὥρα (hṓra) "year, season, period of time" (whence "hour"), Old Church Slavonic jarŭ, and Latin hornus "of this year".[citation...
- Senning (2006). Elsevier's Dictionary of Chemoetymology: The Whys and Whences of Chemical Nomenclature and Terminology, p. 375, at Google Books Armarego...
- Alexander (2006-10-30). Elsevier's Dictionary of Chemoetymology: The Whys and Whences of Chemical Nomenclature and Terminology. ISBN 9780080488813. Greenwood...
- from the siege of Mariupol to the village of Bezimenne near Donetsk, from whence they would move to Zaporizhzhia. On 28 June, Reuters reported that a Russian...
- Senning, A. (2006). Elsevier's Dictionary of Chemoetymology: The Whys and Whences of Chemical Nomenclature and Terminology. Elsevier Science. p. 335. ISBN 9780080488813...
- From Whence Came the Cowboy is the fifth album from the Sons of the San Joaquin and the third and final for the Warner Western label. It is the first to...
- Alexander (2007), Elsevier's dictionary of chemoetymology: the whies and whences of chemical nomenclature and terminology, Elsevier, p. 374, ISBN 978-0-444-52239-9...
- Walton Music. pp. 102–103 – via Internet Archive. Robert ****mings. Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (Whence is that goodly fragrance?) (French) at AllMusic...