whenas

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English

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Etymology

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From when +‎ as.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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whenas (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) When; at the time (which).
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      Tho, when-as all things ready were aright, / The Damzel was before the Altar ſet, / Being already dead with fearful fright.
    • 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
      And indeed it is a greater blessing from God, more worthy so excellent a creature as man is, and a higher end to honour and sanctifie the league of marriage, whenas the solace and satisfaction of the minde is regarded and provided for before the sensitive pleasing of the body.
    • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 557:
      [] and if ever I refused to do his bidding or loitered or took my leisure he beat me with his feet more grievously than if I had been beaten with whips. He ceased not to signal with his hand wherever he was minded to go; so I carried him about the island, like a captive slave, and he bepissed and conskited my shoulders and back, dismounting not night nor day; and whenas he wished to sleep he wound his legs about his neck and leaned back and slept awhile, then arose and beat me; whereupon I sprang up in haste, unable to gainsay him because of the pain he inflicted on me.

Conjunction

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whenas

  1. (archaic) When.
  2. (archaic) Whereas.

Anagrams

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