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wherein, adv. Now formal or arch.|hwɛərˈɪn|
[f. where 15 + in prep. Cf. Du. waarin, G. worin, MSw. hvarinne, Sw. vari, Da. hvori.]
I. Interrogative.
1. In what (thing, matter, respect, etc.)?
In quot. 1600 = in what dress? (in prep. 6.)
For the distinction between the use in dependent clauses and the relative use, cf. what A. I ** note.
c1230Hali Meid. 39 Hare confort & hare delit, hwerin is hit? c1460J. Metham Wks. (1916) 46 Clerkys wryte, off gret and smal, Her namys and naturys, and qwere-in thei noy be kend natural. 1509Fisher Funeral Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. (1876) 289 To shewe wherin this..prynces may wel be lykened..vnto the blessyd woman Martha. 1535Coverdale Exod. xxii. 27 His rayment is his onely couerynge of his skynne: wherin he slepeth. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. ii. 234 How look'd he? Wherein went he? 1611Bible Isa. ii. 22 Wherein is hee to be accounted of? 1671Milton Samson 564 To what can I be useful, wherein serve My Nation? 1728Law Serious C. x, Wherein does the sinfulness of this behaviour consist? 1850McCosh Div. Govt. i. iii. (1874) 60 It is not needful to show wherein the weakness of this theory lies. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xxii, Oh, Britannicus! wherein have we offended?
II. Relative.
2. In which (place, material thing, writing, etc.); where.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) vii. 26 A felde whare in bawme growes apon smale brusches. 1484Caxton Fables of Alfonce iv, A grete purse wherin were a thousand Crownes. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. lxxv. 39 b/2 The cytie..was destroyed, and the churches of godde wherin that god was honoured. c1620A. Hume Brit. Tongue (1865) 14 Anie latin word, quharein now we sound c as s. 1634Milton Comus 135 Stay thy cloudy Ebon chair, Wherin thou rid'st with Hecat'. 1711Steele Spect. No. 158. ⁋5 Your Paper, wherein you fall upon us whom you envy. 1859Gwilt Archit. (ed. 4) 1027 A species of building wherein the faces of the stones are..picked with the point of a hammer. 1888‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Childr. ii, Peering keenly into the shadow wherein she stood.
(b) with ellipsis of antecedent: cf. wherewith 2 b.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 99 The world is made as much for stirring in its kind, as any share of it, if it had but a wherein to stir.
b. In, at, during, or in the course of which (time).
1535Coverdale Ps. lxxxix. [xc.] 15 The yeares wherin we haue suffred aduersite. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. Ded., We liue in those daies wherein enuie raigneth. 1629Milton Nativity i, This is the Month, and this the happy morn Wherin the Son of Heav'ns eternal King..Our great redemption from above did bring. 1733Berkeley Th. Vision Vind. §70 In an Age wherein we hear so much of Thinking and Reasoning. 1819Shelley Cenci i. i. 32 Length of days Wherein to act the deeds which are the stewards Of their revenue.
3. In which (matter, fact, action, condition, etc.); in respect of which.
c1400Apol. Loll. 88 He haþ god þis þat he moost lufiþ, and wer in he tristiþ, as in God. c1440Alphabet of Tales cli. 105 Þies er sophyms & subtelties, whare-in I wastis all my dayes. 1526Tindale Luke xi. 22 He taketh from him his harnes wherin he trusted. 1611Bible Luke i. 4 That thou mightest know the certainetie of those things wherein thou hast bene instructed. 1711Steele Spect. No. 33. ⁋ 1 Poor Daphne was seldom submitted to in a Debate wherein she was concerned. a1774Goldsm. Hist. Greece I. 265 A very sharp action ensued, wherein..the Athenians got the better. 1865Swinburne Chastelard v. ii. 205 Whate'er this be wherein you were aggrieved. 1889‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob xiv, There began a round of pleasure for Julia wherein she was the central figure.
(b) ellipt. or as compar. rel. = in that respect in which; that (one, something) in which.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 179 Wherein it doth impaire the seeing sense, It paies the hearing double recompence. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlvi. §2 There is wherein to exercise patience. 1628in Engl. Hist. Rev. (1918) Jan. 30 Your Wisdome will supply it, wherein it is defectiue. 1728H. Home Decis. Crt. Sess. 1716–28 To Rdr., No Decision is taken Notice of, but wherein some new Point is established. 1894Forum (N.Y.) Oct. 248 This is wherein a bracing climate..accounts for much with the New Englanders.
4. Into which: = whereinto 1.
c1400Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxxiii. 81 A coufre wherin that men shal put pryue thynges. 1526Tindale John vi. 22 There was none other shyppe there save that won wher in his disciples were entred. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. x. 44 We came to an anker very nigh the castle, wherin when our patrone would followe vs [etc.]. |