Wherefore meaning

wâr'fôr', hwâr'-
For what reason or purpose? why?

Wherefore are you angry?

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Wherefore is defined as because, therefore or for which.

An example of wherefore used as a conjunction is in the phrase, "the reason wherefore we decided to see that movie."

conjunction
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Wherefore means the reason.

An example of a wherefore is the cause of a disaster; the cost and wherefore of a disaster.

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For what purpose or reason; why.
adverb
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Therefore.
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A purpose or cause.

Wanted to know all the whys and wherefores.

noun
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For which.

The reason wherefore we have met.

conjunction
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On account of which; because of which; therefore.

We are victorious, wherefore let us rejoice.

conjunction
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The reason; cause.

Never mind the why and wherefore.

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(conjunctive, archaic) Why, for what reason, because of what.
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(conjunctive, archaic or formal) Therefore.
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(archaic) Because of which.

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An intent or purpose; a why.
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Origin of wherefore

  • From Middle English wherfor, wherfore, hwarfore, equivalent to where (“=what") +"Ž for. Compare Dutch waarvoor (“what for, wherefore"), German wofür (“for what, what for, why"), Danish and Norwegian hvorfor (“wherefore, why"), Swedish varför (“wherefore, why"). More at where, for.
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Wherefore Sentence Examples

  • Wherefore He asked them, Do ye believe that I am able to do this thing ?

  • When peace was arranged through French mediation in 1607 the papacy had lost greatly in prestige: it was evident that the once terrible interdict was antiquated, wherefore it has never since been employed against the entire territory of a state.

  • On issuing from the Lake of Zurich the Linth alters its name to that of "Limmat," it does not appear wherefore, and, keeping the north-westerly direction it had taken from the Walensee, joins the Aar a little way below Brugg, and just below the junction of the Reuss with the Aar.

  • Wherefore he promised that the world should be dissolved, and that those who were his should be freed from the dominion of the world-creators.

  • The inwardness of primitive religion is, however, non-existent for those who observe it as uninitiated strangers; whilst, again, it evaporates as soon as native custom breaks down under pressure of civilization, when only fragments of meaningless superstition survive: wherefore do travesties of primitive religion abound.

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