whereon
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9.3
- subordinating conjunction
- Archaic
:
donde
- She wrote the report, whereon her manager immediately praised her work.
Examples
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From the old rotten tree shall spring a healthy growth, whereon holiness shall burgeon as the fig leaves in the spring.
Academic text (2017) -
You may, sir, but please show me the ground whereon you lost your love, so my spotless virtue can tread on it before I perish!
Fiction book (1998) -
You will complete them in a timely fashion, whereon I shall apply them to a larger... whole of my own device.
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Tell me whereon the likelihood depends.
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Come, my queen, take hands with me, and rock the ground whereon these sleepers be.
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For the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
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Thy neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
Blog text (21) -
"We have to remember the threshold of utterance whereon logos is between the oral and the literal, the spoken and the written."
Academic text (2017) -
Moreover, Othello's next speech act is to request that she leave his presence: "Whereon I do beseech thee grant me this, / To leave me but a little to myself" (3.3.84-85).
Academic text (2005) -
He found the iron scales, quite rusted by the cellar damp, whereon he used to watch his grandmother weigh out bundles of asparagus against a set of cylindrical weights, which were still heavy in his hand.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Whereon comes from where + on, which first meant 'on which' and, over time, came to mean 'after which' when one event follows another. So it often introduces what happened next or what followed as a result.