See wherewithal on Wiktionary
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"text": "Big Council meeting! At the bookshop in twenty minutes. Carfare will be refunded. Can we scrape together the wherewithal?",
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"ref": "1688, John Dryden, The Life of St Francis Xavier, book II, translation of original by Dominique Bouhours:",
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"ref": "1954, Edward Eager, Half Magic:",
"text": "Big Council meeting! At the bookshop in twenty minutes. Carfare will be refunded. Can we scrape together the wherewithal?",
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{
"ref": "1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 67:",
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{
"ref": "2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:",
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"ref": "2019, John O’Connell, Bowie's Bookshelf, →ISBN:",
"text": "Although Emma comes to realise she's trapped in a kind of hell, married to a dullard she despises, she lacks the intellectual wherewithal to plot a breakout more sophisticated than consorting with idiots such as Leon and Rodolphe.",
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"ref": "2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 8, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020:",
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 119:9:",
"text": "Wherewithall shall a yong man cleanse his way? by taking heede thereto according to thy word.",
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"(archaic) In what way; how."
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"ref": "1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 41, column 2:",
"text": "Rich. Northumberland, thou Ladder wherewithall / The mounting Bullingbrooke aſcends my Throne",
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "in what way; how",
"word": "waarmede"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in what way; how",
"word": "kuinka"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in what way; how",
"word": "miten"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in what way; how",
"word": "wodurch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in what way; how",
"word": "womit"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "in what way; how",
"word": "come"
}
],
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}
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