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whencenesses

whencenesses is the plural of whenceness.

Meaning of whenceness

Noun

whenceness (countable and uncountable, plural whencenesses)

  1. The state or condition of being from somewhere.
    • As we followed him along the street, he explained our whyness, whenceness, and whitherness to all the loafing children of the sun who inquired of him.1911, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction - Volume 57
  2. An unspecified location or condition from which something or someone has come.
    • The "wherefores and whenceness. "1898, Francis Bartow Lloyd, Lily C. Lloyd, Sketches of Country Life, page 175

Questions about whencenesses

What is whencenesses the plural of?
Whencenesses is the plural of whenceness.

Words near whencenesses in the dictionary

  1. whenceever
  2. whenceforth
  3. whenceforward
  4. whencefrom
  5. whenceness
  6. whencenesses
  7. whencesoe'er
  8. whencesoever
  9. whencever
  10. whenceward
  11. whene'er

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