wherewith
adverb
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L203762 on Wikidata ↗noun
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L333964 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /wɛəˈwɪð/ / /ʍɛɚˈwɪð/ / /ʍɛɚˈwɪθ/
adv
Etymology: From Middle English wherwith. By surface analysis, where + with.
- With which; with what.
“Yee are the ſalt of the earth: But if the ſalt haue loſt his ſauour, wherewith ſhall it bee ſalted?”
“In the left there was a ſort of Engine, from the Back of which were extended twenty long Poles, reſembling the Paliſado's before your Majeſty's Court; wherewith we conjecture the Man-Mountain combs his Head, for we did not always trouble him with Queſtions, becauſe we found it a great Difficulty to make him underſtand us.”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English wherwith. By surface analysis, where + with.
- Something with which; the means by which.
“Hath not he wherewith [translating dequoy] to be beholding vnto this his killing vivacitie?”