whenas

When; at the time (which).

Adverb

  1. When; at the time (which).
    • Tho, when-as all things ready were aright, / The Damzel was before the Altar ſet, / Being already dead with fearful fright. - 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John...
    • And indeed it is a greater blessing from God, more worthy so excellent a creature as man is, and a higher end to honour and sanctifie the league of marriage, whenas the solace and satisfaction of the minde is regarded...
    • […]and if ever I refused to do his bidding or loitered or took my leisure he beat me with his feet more grievously than if I had been beaten with whips. He ceased not to signal with his hand wherever he was minded to...

Origin

From when + as.

Conjunction

  1. When.
  2. Whereas.
    • Only this I marvelled, and other men have since, whenas I, in a ſubject ſo new to this age, and ſo hazardous to pleaſe, concealed not my name, why this author, defending that part which is ſo creeded by the people,...

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