Whereat
Pronunciation
Origin
Full definition of whereat
Conjunction
- at which, or toward which
- 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Again she saw that bosom old,
Again she felt that bosom cold,
And drew in her breath with a hissing sound:
Whereat the Knight turned wildly round,
And nothing saw, but his own sweet maid
With eyes upraised, as one that prayed. - because of which; whereupon