Definizione monolingua

wherefore

wherefore (plural wherefores)

1. An intent or purpose; a why.
   • 1996, Richard Bausch, Good evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea, page 72:

     They want their money without reference to the hows and wherefores.

wherefore (not comparable)

1. (conjunctive, archaic) Why, for what reason, because of what.
   • ""Job"", Holy Bible King James Version, 21:7:

     Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

   • 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

     Romeo, O Romeo. Wherefore art thou, Romeo?

   • 1595, William Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors

     Every why hath a wherefore.

2. (conjunctive, archaic or formal) Therefore.

wherefore

1. (archaic) Because of which.
   • Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
     Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. (Isaiah 30:12-13)

Definizione dizionario wherefore

	perché
	because of which

per quale scopo

quindi

Altri significati:

(conjunctive, archaic or formal) Therefore.

(archaic) Because of which.

(conjunctive, archaic) Why, for what reason, because of what.

An intent or purpose; a why.