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

  1. ‘He can dismiss the question of whence the Holiness Code derives its use of purity language in relation to sins that are not
  2. in and of themselves
  3. violations of literal
  4. physical purity.’
  5. ‘Control is understood as one's being the source whence her actions emanate.’
  6. ‘First and foremost
  7. one must ask whence this ‘right’ derives.’
  8. ‘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.’
  9. ‘Concerned to limit the smothering
  10. Fritz sent the boy off to the barracks
  11. whence he emerged a martinet much given to fancy uniforms
  12. which he would change as often as 10 times a day.’
  13. ‘If they misbehave
  14. they're sent back from whence they came.’
  15. ‘Why had he been sent to Somerset
  16. whence he had escaped and taken refuge in the station?’
  17. ‘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.’
  18. ‘But then consider well
  19. Hugh
  20. dost thou not know from whence thou comest - upon Whose message thou are sent?’
  21. ‘The Ghost of Christmas Passed came calling today
  22. sending pinecones packing and stockings slinking into the Rubbermaid bins from whence they came.’
  23. ‘Four straight defeats
  24. coupled with Queen of the South's defeat against Forfar in midweek
  25. sent them back to whence they came.’
  26. ‘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.’
  27. ‘His father Eric came from Breslau
  28. but as a young man escaped to Paris
  29. whence he was sent to London in 1900 by a theatrical agency to run its London branch.’
  30. ‘Deep
  31. painful decisions for President Wilson in World War I to send Americans back from whence they had the chaos
  32. from whence they had escaped.’
  33. ‘If he realized that she knew that he was an escaped convict
  34. then he might assume that she would be only too eager to send him back from whence he came.’
  35. ‘I've just parcelled my first bit of ripped up junkmail back in its prepaid envelope and sent it back from whence it came.’
  36. ‘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.’
  37. ‘In 1848
  38. however
  39. the abdicating French King claimed the collection as his personal property
  40. and the young Second Republic obliged
  41. sending it after him to England
  42. whence it was dispersed.’
  43. ‘It is evident by now how the values of a therapeutic culture surrounding us have affected our own views
  44. and
  45. therefore
  46. whence the dread and fear of our own aging and general discomfort level with its attendant issues arises.’
  47. ‘In the indeterminate fluxations of a cosmos in which ‘things happen’ and it is futile to ask about whence or wherefore
  48. he accepted responsibility for nothing except the poem he aspired to be.’