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whom

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Who  \Who\,  pron.  [Possess.  {whose};  object.  {Whom}.]  [OE.  who 
  wha,  AS  hw[=a],  interrogative  pron.,  neut.  hw[ae]t;  akin  to 
  OFries  hwa,  neut.  hwet,  OS  hw[=e],  neut.  hwat,  D.  wie, 
  neut.  wat,  G.  wer,  neut.  was  OHG.  wer,  hwer,  neut.  waz, 
  hwaz  Icel.  hvat,  neut.,  Dan.  hvo,  neut.  hvad,  Sw  ho  hvem, 
  neut.  hvad,  Goth.  hwas,  fem.  hw[=o],  neut.  hwa,  Lith.  kas, 
  Ir  &  Gael.  co  W.  pwy,  L.  quod,  neuter  of  qui,  Gr  po`teros 
  whether,  Skr.  kas.  [root]182.  Cf  {How},  {Quantity}, 
  {Quorum},  {Quote},  {Ubiquity},  {What},  {When},  {Where}, 
  {Whether},  {Which},  {Whither},  {Whom},  {Why}.] 
  1.  Originally,  an  interrogative  pronoun,  later  a  relative 
  pronoun  also  --  used  always  substantively,  and  either  as 
  singular  or  plural.  See  the  Note  under  {What},  pron.,  1. 
  As  interrogative  pronouns,  who  and  whom  ask  the  question: 
  What  or  which  person  or  persons?  Who  and  whom  as  relative 
  pronouns  (in  the  sense  of  that),  are  properly  used  of 
  persons  (corresponding  to  which  as  applied  to  things), 
  but  are  sometimes  less  properly  and  now  rarely,  used  of 
  animals,  plants,  etc  Who  and  whom  as  compound  relatives, 
  are  also  used  especially  of  persons,  meaning  the  person 
  that  the  persons  that  the  one  that  whosoever.  ``Let  who 
  will  be  President.''  --Macaulay. 
 
  [He]  should  not  tell  whose  children  they  were 
  --Chaucer. 
 
  There  thou  tell'st  of  kings,  and  who  aspire;  Who 
  fall,  who  rise,  who  triumph,  who  do  moan.  --Daniel. 
 
  Adders  who  with  cloven  tongues  Do  hiss  into  madness. 
  --Shak. 
 
  Whom  I  could  pity  thus  forlorn.  --Milton. 
 
  How  hard  is  our  fate,  who  serve  in  the  state. 
  --Addison. 
 
  Who  cheapens  life,  abates  the  fear  of  death. 
  --Young. 
 
  The  brace  of  large  greyhounds,  who  were  the 
  companions  of  his  sports.  --Sir  W. 
  Scott. 
 
  2.  One  any  one  [Obs.,  except  in  the  archaic  phrase,  as  who 
  should  say.] 
 
  As  who  should  say  it  were  a  very  dangerous  matter 
  if  a  man  in  any  point  should  be  found  wiser  than  his 
  forefathers  were  --Robynson 
  (More's 
  Utopia). 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Whom  \Whom\,  pron.  [OE.  wham,  AS  dative  hw[=a]m,  hw?m.  See 
  {Who}.] 
  The  objective  case  of  who  See  {Who}. 
 
  Note:  In  Old  English,  whom  was  also  commonly  used  as  a 
  dative.  Cf  {Him}. 
 
  And  every  grass  that  groweth  upon  root  She  shall 
  eke  know  and  whom  it  will  do  boot.  --Chaucer.