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Definition of Whilst

Whilst

  1. While.

Whilst Quotations

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
Nelson Mandela

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
William James

Quintilian Quote
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian
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Whilst Translations

whilst in Afrikaans is terwyl, tydens, vir, gedurende
whilst in Danish is imitlertid
whilst in Dutch is gedurende, staande, onder, terwijl
whilst in Finnish is aikana
whilst in French is pendant, durant
whilst in Italian is laddove, durante
whilst in Portuguese is durante
whilst in Spanish is durante, mientras
whilst in Swedish is medans, medan

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