wherethrough
English
editEtymology
editFrom where + through, compare Middle English wherethorow.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editwherethrough (not comparable)
- (archaic) Through which.
- There was also a small window, wherethrough a prisoner might conceivably escape.
- (obsolete) By means of which; whereby.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- They perceived her to be capable of diverse passions, and agitated by many languishing and painfull motions, wherethrough she fell into wearinesse and griefe […].
- 1874, Ernest Myers (transl.), The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, Olympian Ode V, page 16.
- […] the river Oanis, and the lake of his native land, and the sacred channels wherethrough doth Hipparis give water to the people, […]