1911 , , Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction - Volume 57 , As we followed him along the street, he explained our whyness, whenceness, and whitherness to all the loafing children of the sun who inquired of him.
1971 , Jerry H. Gill , The possibility of religious knowledge , Rather, the term "absolute" is employed to call attention to the fact that in their immediate self-consciousness all men are aware of the radical "whenceness" of their entire existence.
2019 , Leo Steinberg, Sheila Schwartz , Michelangelo's Painting: Selected Essays , Biological whenceness blazoned ad oculos.
An unspecified location or condition from which something or someone has come.
1898 , Francis Bartow Lloyd, Lily C. Lloyd , Sketches of Country Life, The "wherefores and whenceness. "
1937 , , All about Hawaii, No one knows how long it took the deep-sea canoes to reach Hawaii from New Zealand, or other whencenesses.
1995 , John Robert Colombo , Ghost Stories of Ontario , Every evening, between 8 and 9 o'clock, stones kept falling upon the roof of Mr. Elihu Neff's residence, in this township, and there was no accounting for the whenceness of their coming.
2008 , S. Brivic , Joyce through Lacan and Žižek: Explorations , Therefore we don't really know our minds, don't know what our intention or “whenceness†is unless we understand where it came from.
