adv. Obs. [An inversion of from whence: cf. HENCE-FROM, THENCE-FROM.]
1. interrog. WHENCE I.
1579. Tomson, Calvin’s Serm. Tim., 29/2. Whence-from did our Lord Iesus Christe and his Apostles drawe their doctrine, but out of Moses?
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. ii. Ark, 306. Whence (shall I say) then, whence-from comes it … That [etc.].
1604. T. Wright, Passions, Pref. I have divers times weighed with my selfe, whencefrom it should proceed [etc.].
2. rel. = WHENCE II.
1666. J. Smith, Old Age (1676), 236. Whereunto all the blood … doth naturally tend;… and whence-from it will in no wise depart.
