whereupon

«whereupon» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: and then; after which — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

and then; after which

part of speech

conjunction; adverb

meaning for a pupil

Immediately after which thing happened. tree →

how it differs from today

Today we say "and then" or "after which"; the word is old and no longer used in everyday speech.

examples

• And every thing whereupon any part of their carcass falleth shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces; they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you. (Torah LEV.11.35, JPS 1917) tree →
• Whereupon he went off indoors, whistling cheerfully. (The Brown Fairy Book) tree →
• Whereupon the bone dropped and fell out. (Indian Fairy Tales) tree →

tests

manual 10.1; corpora 166 (Torah 1, tales 165, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 18.8 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Is this house, whereupon My name is called, become a den of robbers in your eyes?
• For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city whereupon My name is called, and should ye be utterly unpunished?
• But they set their abominations in the house whereupon My name is called, to defile it.
• and sattest upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou didst set Mine incense and Mine oil.
• Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «whereupon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.