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whereby

[wair-bahy, hwair-] / wɛərˈbaɪ, ʰwɛər- /
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by which
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CONJUNCTION
by which
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Whereby you may perceive that our single sounding and use of letters, may in process of time, bring our whole nation to one certain, perfect and general speaking.

From Time • Feb. 17, 2016

Whereby himself carried the news of his being come to the Queen, newly set at supper.

From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva

Whereby Mademoiselle Louise Aubin showed herself to be of sanguine temperament, but a poor student of the art of reading men.

From A Traitor's Wooing by Hill, Headon

"Whereby you put the patient to exquisite pain," replied Baldred; "but help me to transport him to the laboratory."

From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison

Whereby were substituted arts of peace and civilisation for those of war.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella




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