whereinto

[ wair-in-too, hwair-; wair-in-too, hwair- ]

conjunction

1. into which.

whereinto

/ wɛərˈɪntuː /

adverb

1. into what place?

pronoun

1. into which place

Word History and Origins

Origin of whereinto¹

First recorded in 1530–40; where + into

Example Sentences

There thou hast prepared three tabernacles; one for such as, like Magdalen, have offended much, but love to weep at thy blessed feet; one for those who, like John, have wavered in steadfastness for a moment, but long again to rest their head upon thy bosom; and one whereinto only she may enter whose love burns without a reproach, whose heart, always one with thine, finds its home in the centre of thine, fibre intertwined with fibre, till both are melted into one in that furnace of sympathetic love.

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Serving in this place, To Frontal a Vindication of the honour of Scotland, from that Infamy, whereinto the Rigid Presbyterian party of that Nation, out of their Covetousness and ambition, most dissembledly hath involved it.

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An aged Priest named Kenredus, who had bene a chiefe directer of the common affaires, was drawne out of a Church whereinto he had fled, had one of his eyes pulled out, and his tongue torne from his throat.

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He knelt and inspected the holes whereinto the bolts fell, and then glanced casually at the folding shutters.

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But we also believe in a spiritual city, in which the pillars are living saints, an all-embracing blessedness and rapture and depth of revelation, whereinto holy mortals in their highest moments have been “caught up,” a heaven whose angels ascend and descend upon the Son of man.

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