wherethrough
adverb
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Pronunciation: /wɛːˈθɹuː/
adv
Etymology: From where + through, compare Middle English wherethorow.
- Through which.
“There was also a small window, wherethrough a prisoner might conceivably escape.”
- By means of which; whereby.
“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, […]”