What's the difference between whence and whereof?

Whence


Definition:

  • (adv.) From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively.
  • (adv.) From what or which place, source, material, cause, etc.; the place, source, etc., from which; -- used relatively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the rest of life the destructive process predominates, whence a physiological osteopenia, which affects man as well as woman, but which accelerates in the latter during the postmenopausal years.
  • (2) Physiologic therapy demands the return of this fluid to the plasma volume from whence it arose.
  • (3) These results suggest that MCMV does not infect early embryos and that infection first occurs in the placenta of postimplantation embryos, whence it extends through the blood cells to the endothelial and mesodermal cells of different embryonic regions, eventually extending to the neuroectoderm.
  • (4) The earliest atoxyl induced changes in the cochlea appeared in the upper and medial parts of the 4th coil, whence the changes spread progressively downwards towards the round window, the extent of the changes depending on the amount of atoxyl administered and the duration of the treatment.
  • (5) Just as both teams looked content with a point, Dean Moxey sent Gayle down the inside-left channel from whence he cut inside Fabien Delph and curled his right-footed shot into the far top corner.
  • (6) These loud orthographic markers, in turn, echo the profound divide that separates the Afghans' traditional society from the liberal markets from whence secondhand cars make their journey across continents, sometimes complete with dangerously loaded but misunderstood ornamental accessories.
  • (7) Leaving aside the question of from whence these so-called "good citizens" will be sourced, how they will be trained to deal with complex child-neglect cases, and what they would be paid (workfare, jobcentre, sod all, probs), I confess that the idea of Ofsted having its own secret breakfast police in the form of a milk-monitoring Stasi snooper squad does not fill me with reassurance.
  • (8) Villa continued to compete with spirit and no little skill, playing with good width, and the game was in the balance until the 73rd minute, when Shelvey's cross from the right enabled Pablo Hernández to step inside two would-be tacklers before rifling a shot back whence it came, into Guzan's left-hand corner.
  • (9) Whence, the sequence of permeabilities for the two types of potassium channels is: PK greater than PRb greater than PNH4 greater than PNa = PCS.
  • (10) Money was the key instrument, with the leaders pledging millions for the transit countries, the international aid agencies, and up to €1bn (£730m) for Turkey, home to up to 2 million Syrian refugees and whence, via Greece, most people are moving to the EU.
  • (11) The findings suggest that the abnormal material arises in the pericorneal conjunctival connective tissue from whence it diffuses into, and deposits in, the superficial corneal stroma.
  • (12) This was Arabicized, by pre-Islamic Arabs trading in silk with China, as Kimiya, whence arose Al-Kimiya and finally Al-chemy.
  • (13) This transplant is constructed and modeled in accordance with its intended use, around the preselected vascular pedicle, whence the term prefabricated.
  • (14) Our results are not conclusive, but do suggest that kallikrein is located in these granules whence it is secreted into the lumen of the duct.2.
  • (15) REMOVING ONE OF THE KNIVES IN HIS BACK AND RETURNING IT FROM WHENCE IT CAME It's been a whole day since Manchester United became the first professional football club in All History to sack its manager.
  • (16) caused either by rupture of myofibres, whence the abjunctional stump lost its contact with the neuromuscular junction on the adjunctional stump, or by necrosis of the segment of the ruptured myofibre lying underneath the neuromuscular junction.
  • (17) Under the Norwegian novice, Cardiff have taken only eight points from his first 13 matches and – six points adrift of a safe position with five games left – they are set for an early return whence they came, after their promotion as champions last season.
  • (18) It’s taken by Beardsley and half-cleared to the edge of the box, where Gascoigne hooks the bouncing ball back whence it came with his left foot.
  • (19) Most of the blood products transfused into these hemophiliacs were imported from abroad, whence the source of HTLV-III infection presumably originated.
  • (20) Best biographies of 2012 Read more She was born in 1930 in Tuamgraney, County Clare, to parents from backgrounds so different that she wrote: “I sometimes attribute my two conflicting selves to my contrasting grandparents, the one a lady, the other a peasant.” Her mother – from a poor family that had crossed from the west of Ireland – had worked in America, whence gifts and visitors would occasionally arrive.

Whereof


Definition:

  • (adv.) Of which; of whom; formerly, also, with which; -- used relatively.
  • (adv.) Of what; -- used interrogatively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whereof one cannot speak thereof we must pass over in silence and all that.
  • (2) In token whereof I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of December, 1936, in the presence of the witnesses whose signatures are subscribed.
  • (3) The amendment’s first section reads: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Warren, Michigan, March 2016.
  • (4) The effect of 21 chemical substances was investigated whereof 7 compounds was determined as effective fading-inhibitors.
  • (5) Consequently, we conclude, that a policy followed in the serodiagnostic Western-Blot of human AIDS should also be adopted for the interpretation of the EIA Western-Blot, namely to declare as positive merely horse sera which evidence more than one single band, whereof at least one band should represent a viral glycoprotein.
  • (6) Serwotka, 46, who grew up in the South Wales valleys, knows whereof he speaks: he left school at 16, with five painfully acquired O-levels, and went to work for a benefit office in Aberdare.
  • (7) The Cainguá (Mbŷá) have preserved a singular theology whereof the comprehension makes possible an approach to the real being within that culture.
  • (8) Pancreatic enzyme substitution may principally be used in few indications, whereof most of them are only relative.
  • (9) Treatment was required in 39 cases whereof 18 were placed under observation only.
  • (10) Consequently, a prospective study of symptoms and endoscopy and biopsy interpretation was undertaken in 200 patients consecutively submitted to upper endoscopy, whereof 12 were excluded.
  • (11) Stone removal was successful in 82% of the cases whereof the stones were pushed back into the renal pelvis and subsequently managed with percutaneous nephrolithotomy or extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy in 24%.
  • (12) Bobbitt, we can assume, knows whereof he speaks: he has shot all three of McQueen's features – Hunger, Shame and now 12 Years a Slave – as well as five of McQueen's gallery shorts, dating back to 2002's Western Deep , shot in South Africa inside the world's deepest gold mine.
  • (13) Four patients had misalignments of up to 15 degrees, whereof three of them had combined varus-recurvation-angulations without functional or cosmetic sequelae.
  • (14) The total of 1154 identified samples consisted mainly of ruminants (37%, whereof bushbuck represented 57%), hippopotamus (34%), and monitor lizard (19%).
  • (15) The title refers to the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” For the new British black film-making hope, Adesunloye, access to funds and exposure remain the key issues, even with a voguish new transatlantic interest in telling the story of the African diaspora.
  • (16) Report on 370 dyslexics, whereof 281 can be evaluated.
  • (17) Iscoms containing the fusion protein of measles virus induced T cell clones in mice whereof one, after adoptive transfer, protected mice against intracerebral challenge infection.
  • (18) Gillen's character, Petyr Baelish, certainly knows whereof he speaks.