Accomplish vs Wherewithal - What's the difference?
accomplish | wherewithal |
To finish successfully.
To complete, as time or distance.
* That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. - Daniel 9:2
* He had accomplished half a league or more. -
To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.
* This that is written must yet be accomplished in me - Luke 22:37
(archaic) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
* The armorers accomplishing the knights - Shakespeare, Henry V, IV-chorus
* It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. -
* These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. -
(obsolete) To gain; to obtain
:(Shakespeare)
The ability and means required to accomplish some task.
* I would like to help your project, but I do not have the wherewithal .
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(archaic) In what way; how.
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As a verb accomplish
is to finish successfully.As a noun wherewithal is
the ability and means required to accomplish some task.As a adverb wherewithal is
(archaic) in what way; how.accomplish
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(Webster 1913)Verb
Synonyms
* do, perform, fulfill, realize, effect, effectuate, complete, consummate, execute, achieve, perfect, equip, furnish, carry outExternal links
* * *wherewithal
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Noun
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- "I just can't imagine," Philip said, "having that kind of self-knowledge, that kind of...wherewithal at fifteen.[...]"
Adverb
(-)- Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?