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If her beauty has faded, where--where is my strength?

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  1. adverb At or in what place: Where is the telephone?
  2. adverb In what situation or position: Where would we be without your help?
  3. adverb From what place or source: Where did you get this idea?
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  1. Middle English, from Old English hwǣr; see kwo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English wher, whar, whær, ware, war, wor, hwere, hware, hwar, hwær, from Anglo-Saxon hwæmacr;r, hwār = Old Saxon hwār, huār = OFries. hwēr = Dutch waar = Middle Low German wār, wōr, Low German waar, woor = Old High German wār, hwār, Middle High German wār-, German war- (in comp., as in war-um, wor-in), also reduced, Old High German Middle High German wā, German wo = Icelandic Swedish hvar = Danish hvor = Gothic (Moesogothic) hwar, where?; cf. Lithuanian kur, where? L. cur, Old Latin quor, sometimes cor (usually explained as a contraction of quā re), why? Sanskrit karhi, at what time? when?; from the pronominal base represented by who, what: see who, what. Cf. there, as related to the, that.
  2. Formerly also wheare; from where, adv., as used in everywhere, somewhere.
  3. from Middle English wher, where, contraction of wheder, English whether.
 

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