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Thereout vs Whereout - What's the difference?

thereout | whereout |

As an adverb thereout

is (obsolete) out of it, out from it.

As a conjunction whereout is

out of which.

thereout

English

Adverb

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  • (obsolete) Out of it, out from it.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1590 , author= , title= , passage=Claius presently went to a Fisherman, & having agreed with him, and provided some apparrell for the naked stranger, he imbarked, and the Shepheards with him: and were no sooner gone beyond the mouth of the haven, but that some way into the sea they might discerne (as it were) a stayne of the waters colour, and by times some sparkes and smoke mounting thereout .}}
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  • , year=1895 , author= , title= , page=38 , passage="Keep thy money, man, and gi's thy hand," says he, and they shake hands; but the old gamester gives the new hat to the shepherd, and, soon after, the half-sovereign to Willum, who thereout decorates his sweetheart with ribbons to his heart's content.}}
  • (obsolete) outside; outdoors
  • (Chaucer)

    Synonyms

    * (out from it) therefrom

    Anagrams

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    whereout

    English

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • Out of which.
  • The cleft whereout the lightning breaketh. — Holland.
    (Webster 1913)