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wherewithout

wherewithout adverb: without which.

Adverb

wherewithout (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, rare) Without which.
    • […]the conduits of water, wherewithout men cannot commodiously live, have now failed, and are dried up in those hills.1562, John Jewel, Apologia ecclesiae Anglicanae

Origin of wherewithout

From where- + without.

Questions about wherewithout

What does wherewithout mean?
Wherewithout means without which.
What part of speech is wherewithout?
Wherewithout is an adverb.

Words near wherewithout in the dictionary

  1. wherewith
  2. wherewithal
  3. wherewithall
  4. wherewithals
  5. wherewithin
  6. wherewithout
  7. wherewiths
  8. whereäs
  9. wherin
  10. Wherley
  11. Wherleys

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