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Hereto vs Whereby - What's the difference?

hereto | whereby |

As adverbs the difference between hereto and whereby

is that hereto is to here, to this while whereby is by what, in which direction; how.

hereto

English

Adverb

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  • (archaic) to here, to this
  • * 1697 , Daniel Defoe, An Essay upon Projects
    • I, A. B., do solemnly swear and attest that the account hereto annexed is true and right...
  • (archaic) yet, so far
  • * 1609 , William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
    • Which the rather / We shall be bless'd to do, if he remember / A kinder value of the people than / He hath hereto priz'd them at.
  • * 1861 , Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
    • Lords had not been frequent among her acquaintance hereto .
  • (archaic) regarding this subject

    • Usage notes

    * In current English, hereto is extremely formal and used mostly in legal contexts.

    Anagrams

    * English pronominal adverbs ----

    whereby

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (interrogative, obsolete) By what, in which direction; how
  • By which.
  • * 1990 , Local management of schools , Kogan Page Ltd:
    • Other heads saw devolution as a whole new way of life and adopted an approach whereby the power of devolution was used to enable the school to drive the curriculum.
  • (nonstandard) Where.
  • * 1992 , The hotel receptionist , Paige, Jane and Paige, Grace, Cassell Educational:
    • This is an electronic system whereby executives are issued with small bleepers.

    Usage notes

    Use of whereby as a formal equivalent of where'' is nonstandard and is avoided by careful speakers and writers, who use ''where'' or ''in which instead. The term typically fails readability and comprehension review so it is generally avoided in published works. The term is also avoided by speakers as it makes it difficult to understand the message that is trying to be communicated.

    See also

    * thereabout, thereafter, thereagainst, thereat, thereby, therefor, therefore, therefrom, therein, thereinafter, thereof, thereon, thereto, theretofore, thereunder, thereunto, thereupon, therewith, therewithal * hereabout, hereafter, hereat, hereby, herein, hereinafter, hereinbefore, hereinto, hereof, hereon, hereto, heretofore, hereunto, hereunder, hereupon, herewith * whereabouts, whereas, whereafter, whereat, whereby, wherefore, wherefrom, wherein, whereinto, whereof, whereon, whereto, whereunder, whereupon, wherever, wherewith, wherewithal English pronominal adverbs