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whereas
where·as
UK/wɛəɹˈaz/UK/wəˈɹaz/UK/ˈwɛɹəz/US/(h)wɛɹˈæz/
adverb
What it means
- not comparableobsoleteWhere (that).
And home she came, whereas her mother blynd / Sate in eternall night […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii
In a sentence
And home she came, whereas her mother blynd / Sate in eternall night […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii
Where it comes from
From where + as (“that”); first attested in the meaning of "where" in the 14th century. Compare thereas.
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