whenabouts

English

Adverb

whenabouts (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of whenabout
   • 1757, John Harris, The description and Use of the Globes, page 149:

     Let it be required to find the Situation of Jupiter among the Fixed Stars in the Heavens, and also whenabouts it rises and sets, and comes to the Meridian on the 19th of May, 1757, N. S. at London.

   • 1895, New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division- First Department:

     I want to know whenabouts. I told you that.

   • 1917, Madge Mears, The Candid Courtship, page 162:

     And whenabouts did he start from here, do you know ? ”

Noun

whenabouts (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of whenabout
   • 1905, John Stephen Farmer, Anonymous Plays, page 254:

     but the allusion to Calais (150c), “What . . . will ye have me now a fool? . . . yet had I liever be captain of Calais,” seems also to fix the “whenabouts” of the play, inasmuch as the commencement of war with France by Henry VIII. in 1509 would naturally revive public interest in, and allusions to, Calais which since 1450 had been the only English holding in France.

   • 1907, Bernard Christian Steiner, The Life and Correspondence of James McHenry:

     In contemplating our situation, I am convinced, that the accession of Louisiana, will accelerate a division, of these States; whose whenabouts, is uncertain, but somewhen is inevitable.

   • 2014, Carolyn Eisele, Charles S. Peirce, Mathematical Miscellanea., page 1076:

     Every instant of time has a “whenabouts,” which is an indefinite lapse in which it is, such that between this instant and any other instant whatever, there are instants of the whenabouts beyond all multitude.

   • 2014, Ron Mitchell, Warped: a novel of involuntary time travel, page 51:

     She hadn't even given me the time to ascertain my whenabouts.