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Webster 1913 Edition


Whereas

Where-as′

,
adv.
At which place; where.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
At last they came
whereas
that lady bode.
Spenser.

Where-as′

,
c
onj.
1.
Considering that; it being the case that; since; – used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow.
2.
When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that; although; – implying opposition to something that precedes; or implying recognition of facts, sometimes followed by a different statement, and sometimes by inferences or something consequent.
Are not those found to be the greatest zealots who are most notoriously ignorant?
whereas
true zeal should always begin with true knowledge.
Sprat.

Webster 1828 Edition


Whereas

WHEREAS

,
adv.
s as z. [where and as.]
1.
When in fact or truth, implying opposition to something that precedes.
Are not those found to be the greatest zealots, who are most notoriously ignorant? Whereas true zeal should always begin with true knowledge.
2.
The thing being so that; considering that things are so; implying an admission of facts, sometimes followed by a different statement, and sometimes by inferences or something consequent, as in the law style, where a preamble introduces a law.
Whereas wars are generally causes of poverty--
3.
Whereat; at which place.
4.
But on the contrary. [See No. 1.]

Definition 2024


whereäs

whereäs

See also: whereas

English

Conjunction

whereäs

  1. Rare spelling of whereas.
    • 1906: Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, Report of Proceedings … Xth International Navigation Congress — Milan 1905, p231
      After a dry season, the influence of heavy rains becomes manifest more quickly and more progressively in the less wooded basin, whereäs the reverse is found in the basin which has a larger forest area.
    • 1984: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, p26
      Notice that since the range of χ is limited by (5), whereäs that of x is unlimited, the transformation (6) does not cover the whole of the space-time represented by (1).
    • 1997: Hiroyuki Sonoki et alii, Heart and Vessels — Nipradilol, a new β-adrenergic blocker, reduces left ventricular remodeling following myocardial infarction in spontaneously hypertensive rats
      …after MI, whereäs propranolol promotes it.