adv. Now formal or arch. [f. WHERE 15 + FROM prep.] From which; whence.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xii. 45. There is the Region of thire, wherfrom we haue wythdrawen … all this people.
1621. Sanderson, Serm., 1 Cor. vii. 24 (1674), I. 205. Some Calling; wherefrom he may be altogether averse, and whereto altogether unfit.
1768. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 40. We have none others wherefrom to describe anything conceivable to our imagination.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. IV. iv. Lofty galleries; wherefrom dames of honour … may sit and look.
1865. Kingsley, Herew., xvi. Wherefrom Hereward opined that Gilbert had need of him.
1893. J. Caird, Fundam. Ideas Chr., vii. Akin to the infinite source wherefrom they proceed.
