Dictionary entry
Whence
Pronunciation: /wɛns/
Pronunciation
/wɛns/
Myanmar Meaning
ဘယ်နေရာကလဲ။ return whence you came မင်းလာခဲ့တဲ့နေရာကို ပြန်ပါ။ ဘယ်ဟာက။ ပြီးတော့။ နောက်တော့။ whence it follows that ပြီးတော့ အဲဒါဘယ်လိုဖြစ်တာလဲ။
Definition
whence /wens/ adv ( arch or fml ) သည့္အရပ္။ သည့္ဌာန။ They returned whence they came.
Examples
- ‘He can dismiss the question of whence the Holiness Code derives its use of purity language in relation to sins that are not
- in and of themselves
- violations of literal
- physical purity.’
- ‘Control is understood as one's being the source whence her actions emanate.’
- ‘First and foremost
- one must ask whence this ‘right’ derives.’
- ‘I'd leave him in that box and let him ride around in the UPS truck til they send him back from whence he came.’
- ‘Concerned to limit the smothering
- Fritz sent the boy off to the barracks
- whence he emerged a martinet much given to fancy uniforms
- which he would change as often as 10 times a day.’
- ‘If they misbehave
- they're sent back from whence they came.’
- ‘Why had he been sent to Somerset
- whence he had escaped and taken refuge in the station?’
- ‘He was taken from his mother and sent to a Church of England boys' home whence he was adopted by a white family who loved him dearly.’
- ‘But then consider well
- Hugh
- dost thou not know from whence thou comest - upon Whose message thou are sent?’
- ‘The Ghost of Christmas Passed came calling today
- sending pinecones packing and stockings slinking into the Rubbermaid bins from whence they came.’
- ‘Four straight defeats
- coupled with Queen of the South's defeat against Forfar in midweek
- sent them back to whence they came.’
- ‘Normally you can stop them in time and whatever has come up can be sent back down from whence it came but this time I just couldn't do it and out went this little puddle of puke straight into Stinking Pete's pint.’
- ‘His father Eric came from Breslau
- but as a young man escaped to Paris
- whence he was sent to London in 1900 by a theatrical agency to run its London branch.’
- ‘Deep
- painful decisions for President Wilson in World War I to send Americans back from whence they had the chaos
- from whence they had escaped.’
- ‘If he realized that she knew that he was an escaped convict
- then he might assume that she would be only too eager to send him back from whence he came.’
- ‘I've just parcelled my first bit of ripped up junkmail back in its prepaid envelope and sent it back from whence it came.’
- ‘We live in a strange time and place where a minister of the government believes that he is doing his job by rounding up the poorest of the poor and sending them back to the hellhole from whence they sprang.’
- ‘In 1848
- however
- the abdicating French King claimed the collection as his personal property
- and the young Second Republic obliged
- sending it after him to England
- whence it was dispersed.’
- ‘It is evident by now how the values of a therapeutic culture surrounding us have affected our own views
- and
- therefore
- whence the dread and fear of our own aging and general discomfort level with its attendant issues arises.’
- ‘In the indeterminate fluxations of a cosmos in which ‘things happen’ and it is futile to ask about whence or wherefore
- he accepted responsibility for nothing except the poem he aspired to be.’