whenabouts

Alternative form of whenabout.

Adverb

  1. Alternative form of whenabout.
    • 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. - 1757, John Harris,...
    • I want to know whenabouts. I told you that. - 1895, New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division- First Department:
    • And whenabouts did he start from here, do you know ? ” - 1917, Madge Mears, The Candid Courtship, page 162:

Noun

  1. Alternative form of whenabout.
    • 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...
    • In contemplating our situation, I am convinced, that the accession of Louisiana, will accelerate a division, of these States; whose whenabouts, is uncertain, but somewhen is inevitable. - 1907, Bernard Christian...
    • Every instant of time has a “whenabouts,” which is an indefinite lapse in which it is, such that between this instant and any other instant whatever, there are instants of the whenabouts beyond all multitude. - 2014,...

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