whereunto

From where +‎ unto.

• IPA^(key): /wɛːɹʌnˈtuː/

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whereunto (not comparable)

1. (archaic or formal, sometimes interrogative) Unto what or which; to what purpose.
   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, section XVIII:

     I will retire as soon as you have told
     Whereunto leadeth this lost thread of gold.

   • a. 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, An Introduction to a Breviary of the History of England […] :

     […] for that they were content somewhat to unwrest the sovereignty from the height whereunto he had strained it; which brought the state to a better proportion of harmony.

• whereto

whereunto

1. (archaic or formal) unto which