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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. For what purpose or reason; why.
  2. adv. Therefore.
  3. n. A purpose or cause: wanted to know all the whys and wherefores.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. For what reason, thing, or purpose? what for? why?
  2. For which cause or reason; in consequence of which; consequently.
  3. Synonyms Therefore, Wherefore, Accordingly, etc. See therefore.
  4. n. The reason or cause.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. conjunctive, archaic Why, for what reason, because of what.
  2. adv. conjunctive Therefore.
  3. conj. archaic Because of which.
  4. n. An intent or purpose; a why.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. For which reason; so; -- used relatively.
  2. adv. For what reason; why; -- used interrogatively.
  3. n. colloq. the reason why.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English wherfor, wherfore, hwarfore, equivalent to where (“=what”) +‎ for. Compare Dutch waarvoor ("what for, wherefore"), German wofür ("for what, what for, why"), Danish and Norwegian hvorfor ("wherefore, why"), Swedish varför ("wherefore, why"). More at where, for. (Wiktionary)

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