Wherefore vs Null - What's the difference?
wherefore | null |
(conjunctive, archaic) Why, for what reason, because of what.
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
* "Job", Holy Bible King James Version, 21:7:
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(conjunctive, archaic, or, formal) Therefore.
(archaic) Because of which.
:* Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. (Isaiah 30:12-13)
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A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between wherefore and null
is that wherefore is an intent or purpose; a why while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adverb wherefore
is (conjunctive|archaic) why, for what reason, because of what.As a conjunction wherefore
is (archaic) because of which.wherefore
English
Adverb
(-)- "Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"
- Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
- Romeo, O Romeo. Wherefore art thou, Romeo?
- Every why hath a wherefore .
Usage notes
* A common misconception is that wherefore means where''; it has even been used in that sense in cartoon depictions of Romeo and Juliet, often played for comedic effect. In ''Romeo and Juliet'', the meaning of “Wherefore art thou Romeo?” () is not “''Where'' are you, Romeo?” but “''Why are you Romeo?” (i.e. “Why did you have to be a Montague?”).See also
*Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. (Isaiah 30:12-13)
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Derived terms
* whys and whereforesnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.