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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Whereof  \Where*of"\,  adv 
  1.  Of  which  of  whom  formerly,  also  with  which  --  used 
  relatively. 
 
  I  do  not  find  the  certain  numbers  whereof  their 
  armies  did  consist.  --Sir  J. 
  Davies. 
 
  Let  it  work  like  Borgias'  wine,  Whereof  his  sire, 
  the  pope,  was  poisoned.  --Marlowe. 
 
  Edward's  seven  sons,  whereof  thyself  art  one 
  --Shak. 
 
  2.  Of  what  --  used  interrogatively. 
 
  Whereof  was  the  house  built?  --Johnson. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  whereof 
  adv  1:  of  which  "punishment  for  a  crime  whereof  he  was  convicted" 
  2:  of  what  "he  knows  whereof  he  speaks" 




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