Whenabouts
adv, noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of whenabout. alt-of, alternative, uncountable
"but the allusion to Calais (150c), “What . . . will ye have me now a fool? . . . yet had I liever be captain of Calais,” seems also to fix the “whenabouts” of the play, inasmuch as the commencement of war with France by Henry VIII. in 1509 would naturally revive public interest in, and allusions to, Calais which since 1450 had been the only English holding in France."
- 1 Alternative form of whenabout. alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
"Let it be required to find the Situation of Jupiter among the Fixed Stars in the Heavens, and also whenabouts it rises and sets, and comes to the Meridian on the 19th of May, 1757, N. S. at London."
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More examples"Let it be required to find the Situation of Jupiter among the Fixed Stars in the Heavens, and also whenabouts it rises and sets, and comes to the Meridian on the 19th of May, 1757, N. S. at London."
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