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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wherein \Where*in"\, adv
1. In which in which place thing time, respect, or the
like -- used relatively.
Her clothes wherein she was clad. --Chaucer.
There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious
as well as innocent. --Swift.
2. In what -- used interrogatively.
Yet ye say Wherein have we wearied him! --Mal. ii
17.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wherein
adv 1: in regard to which "a case wherein he took an active part"
2: in the course or during which "a period wherein he did not
work"
3: in which where "the particular state wherein you reside"
4: in what "wherein consists this matter?"
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