Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Whereto.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Unto what or whom? whereto?
- To which or whom; unto what; for what end or purpose.
Wiktionary
- adv. interrogative unto what; to what purpose
- adv. unto which
- conj. unto which
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Same as whereto.
Etymologies
- From where + unto. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But upon a supposition hereof, he is no less concerned in what shall yet farther give him title whereunto, that he may reign in life through righteousness.”
“Noah's salvation in the ark upon the water prefigured the salvation of all good Christians in the church by baptism; that temporal salvation by the ark was a type, the antitype whereunto is the eternal salvation of believers by baptism, to prevent mistakes about which the apostle,”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“And of them there is not any one but we are ready to vindicate it, if called whereunto, from the exceptions of these men; which how bold and sophistical they are we may, in these now considered, also learn and know.”
A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity
“I shall be happy to learn more definitely about the "whereunto" of the disturbance so that I may be able to give needed answers to many inquiries on the subject.”
“Now, if the "whereunto" refers to the "disobedient," how could they be charged with disobedience if they were just doing what they were appointed to do?”
“Christ is the term "whereunto": for Ambrose says in De Officiis (De”
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
“Here is the actual text of 1 Peter 3.21 (AV): "The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
“As the Bibo Sez of the hardworking believers who spread wide for what the Bibo Sez, "If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained" 1st Timothy 4:6.”
“Except thy knees I have no altar whereunto to fly; and not a friend stands at my side.”
“YE have heard, Brethren, as well in your private examination, as in the exhortation which was now made to you, and in the holy Lessons taken out of the Gospel, and the writings of the Apostles, of what dignity, and of how great importance this Office is, whereunto ye are called.”
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