wherof

English

Conjunction

wherof

1. Obsolete form of whereof.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 110:

     What is that wrong, wherof you both complain / Firſt let me know, and then Ile anſwer you.

   • 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:

     Seventhly, The Canon Law and Divines consent, that if either party be found contriving against anothers life, they may be sever’d by divorce; for a sin against the life of mariage is greater then a sin against the bed: the one destroyes, the other defiles: The same may be said touching those persons who being of a pensive nature and cours of life, have sum’d up all their solace in that free and lightsome conversation which God and man intends in marriage: wherof when they see themselves depriv’d by meeting an unsociable consort, they oft-times resent one anothers mistake so deeply, that long it is not ere griefe end one of them.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 46:4:

     There is a riuer, the streames wherof shall make glad the citie of God: the holy place of the Tabernacles of the most High.