"whenceness" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "whenceforth"
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          "ref": "1911, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction - Volume 57",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1971, Jerry H. Gill, The possibility of religious knowledge, page 56",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2019, Leo Steinberg, Sheila Schwartz, Michelangelo's Painting: Selected Essays, page 10",
          "text": "Biological whenceness blazoned ad oculos.",
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          "ref": "1898, Francis Bartow Lloyd, Lily C. Lloyd, Sketches of Country Life, page 175",
          "text": "The \"wherefores and whenceness. \"",
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          "ref": "1937, All about Hawaii, page 44",
          "text": "No one knows how long it took the deep-sea canoes to reach Hawaii from New Zealand, or other whencenesses.",
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          "ref": "1995, John Robert Colombo, Ghost Stories of Ontario, page 39",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2008, S. Brivic, Joyce through Lacan and Žižek: Explorations, page 116",
          "text": "Therefore we don't really know our minds, don't know what our intention or “whenceness” is unless we understand where it came from.",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Jerry H. Gill, The possibility of religious knowledge, page 56",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Biological whenceness blazoned ad oculos.",
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          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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        }
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