What's the difference between whereof and wherewith?

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.

Wherewith


Definition:

  • (adv.) With which; -- used relatively.
  • (adv.) With what; -- used interrogatively.
  • (n.) The necessary means or instrument.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I don't know whether the government has the wherewithal to help and I know it's a struggle.
  • (2) The wherewithal has somehow been found to build two tracts of considerately single-storey public housing.
  • (3) The fact is that, for whatever reason, Emwazi has it within his persona the wherewithal to murder the innocent.
  • (4) And both have the wherewithal to seize the prize: Atlético have just won the Spanish league; Real have the upper hand in the head-to-heads this year.
  • (5) I had reservations about it, but you can have a more mature 14-year-old walk through the door and do a better audition and have the kind of wherewithal you would expect a 17-year-old to have.
  • (6) Whenever I think of carers and their management, I always think of Peter Thompson's magisterial account of the First World War entitled Lions Led By Donkeys, which neatly encapsulates the lack of wherewithal the further up the chain of command one goes.
  • (7) It’s the only place where silence is mandatory and generalised rather than an accidental moment in-between bursts of activity, and it requires great skills of concentration and inner stillness to develop the wherewithal to take your book or your work to a library table and sit down and study without surfing the web, shooting off a text or gabbling about nothing to your friends.
  • (8) I have got to know Farhad well over the last 18 months and his football knowledge, financial wherewithal and true blue spirit have convinced me that he is the right man to support Everton.” Moshiri added: “I am delighted to take this opportunity to become a shareholder in Everton, with its rich heritage as one of Europe’s leading football clubs.
  • (9) I have got to know Farhad well over the last 18 months and his football knowledge, financial wherewithal and true-blue spirit have convinced me that he is the right man to support Everton.
  • (10) Love, commitment and financial wherewithal are no longer sufficient.
  • (11) Affluence provides financial wherewithal to secure an adequate diet.
  • (12) The vast array of free tissue options available to reconstructive surgeons plus our knowledge of vascular systems now provide us with the wherewithal to not only fill a defect but to do so aesthetically and with minimal donor site morbidity.
  • (13) When I was 12 … I carried a copy of Aladdin Sane around with me – a full two years before I had the wherewithal to play it,” she said.
  • (14) As a result, the burden of paying for public goods such as education, health and housing is increasingly shouldered by taxpayers on average incomes, who don’t have the wherewithal to sustain them.
  • (15) So, it is difficult to entirely protect our community from this kind of act, but we do have extremely professional, very thorough, very capable police and security agencies, and I am confident that we have the wherewithal to do what we need to do to keep our community safe.” On Saturday, the country’s justice minister said bills giving authorities greater powers to deal with terrorism would be introduced into parliament next week.
  • (16) Katter said there were “28 major people who have got the wherewithal to start mining [the Galilee] tomorrow – I’m not saying they will but they could if they wanted to”.
  • (17) Socialist countries having the material wherewithal and cultural wealth to maintain their populations have a genuine interest in population growth and maternity is therefore encouraged.
  • (18) I've made no bones about it that I would use the wherewithal provided by the European parliament to go round Britain and campaign against Britain's membership of the European Union.
  • (19) It must speak of what happened, of what it knows, for the very reason that silence – the removal of the will and wherewithal to speak, and the fear of never being listened to or believed – was the ultimate aim of that system of dehumanisation Nazism embraced, and the proof it had succeeded.
  • (20) Due to financial constraints in the aftermath of the international financial crisis, the fees local authorities pay for care home places have reduced by 5% in real terms over three years while non-discretionary costs of wages, energy, food have risen.” Payroll is the biggest single cost item for operators, he adds, accounting for about 60% of their overheads: “So when the minimum wage increases without a corresponding increase in fees for care, it is a significant problem that will threaten the viability of many homes if it continues.” However, Vaughan believes these comments from Four Seasons are a “bit rich” as, he says, “care home providers who run 40-60 homes or larger probably do have the wherewithal to pay the living wage”.