wherein
adverb
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L203753 on Wikidata ↗conjunction
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L333981 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /wɛˈɹɪn/ / /wɛəˈɹɪn/
adv
Etymology: From Middle English wherin; equivalent to where- + in.
- How, or in what way.
“Wherein did I misspeak myself?”
“Wherein have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?”
conj
Etymology: From Middle English wherin; equivalent to where- + in.
- Where, or in which location.
“Defile not therefoꝛe the lande which yee ſhall inhabite, wherein I dwell: foꝛ I the Lord dwell among the childꝛen of Iſrael.”
“As she went through the woods where the primroses and the whitethorn were blossoming, the place seemed as the land of Elim, wherein there were twelve wells and threescore and ten palm trees.”
- During which.
“[T]here is a time wherein one man ruleth ouer another to his owne hurt.”
- How, or in what way.
“In order to show them wherein they were wrong, Samuel was instructed to bear witness against them […]”