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whereout, adv. arch.|hwɛərˈaʊt|
[f. where 15 + out adv. Cf. Du. waaruit, G. woraus.]
Out of which, out from which (in various senses: see out adv. and out of).
1340Ayenb. 242 Lottes wyf lokede behinde hire þe cite þet bernde, huerout hi wes iguo. 1375in Horstmann Altengl. Leg. (1878) 132/1 Þe tre of mercy..Where out renneþ oyle of lyf. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xix. 428 He hath betrapped me wythin his gynnes wheroute I can not scape. 1535Coverdale Micah ii. 3, I deuysed a plage, wherout ye shal not plucke youre neckes. 1578in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 300 In the whole—lxviijs ijd. whereout abate vjs. viijd. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. v. 245 The very breach, where-out Hectors great spirit flaw. 1641Earl of Monmouth tr. Biondi's Civil Wars vii. 75, I have not whereout to frame a History. 1768Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 615 The general good becomes the root whereout all our schemes and contrivances..are to branch. 1885Tennyson Anc. Sage 13 The heavens Whereby the cloud was moulded, and whereout The cloud descended.
†b. From which, whence (as an inference). Obs.
1569J. Rogers Glasse Godly Love (New Shaks. Soc.) 179 The wife must bee obediente vnto her husband, as vnto Christ himselfe; whereout it foloweth, that the saide obedience extendeth not vnto any wickednesse or euill. a1626W. Sclater Exp. 4th Ch. Rom. (1650) 92 The end was, that he might be Father of Believers in both people: where⁓out amounts the conclusion intended.
†c. Also whereout of (cf. whereinto). Obs.
1574tr. Marlorat's Apoc. 21 Yet did hee sauour of the earth, wherout of his bodie was taken, and wherin hee was placed to liue. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xxiv. 142 Being humbled in our selues by beholding the miseries wher⁓out of we be waded. c1632in G. Barry Orkney (1805) 474 The Baillie of the paroch whereout of he has fled, shall cause him be jogged at the church. |