Definition of Whence

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Whence

From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively.

From what or which place, source, material, cause, etc.; the place, source, etc., from which; -- used relatively.

Related Definitions:

Antecedent, Cause, From, Hence, How, Interrogatively, Like, Material, Or, Origin, Place, Premise, Relatively, Source, The, Used, What, Which

Whence Quotations

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
John F. Kennedy

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund Burke

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.
Black Elk

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Joseph Conrad

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
Gottfried Leibniz

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
Christopher Marlowe

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
Horatio Nelson

Whence Translations

whence in German is woher
whence in Hungarian is ahonnan
whence in Italian is donde
whence in Latin is unde

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