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whereupon

[ hwair-uh-pon, -pawn, wair-; hwair-uh-pon, -pawn, wair- ]

conjunction

  1. upon what or upon which.
  2. at or after which.
  3. Archaic. upon what?


whereupon

/ ˌɛəəˈɒ /

sentence connector

  1. at which; at which point; upon which
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adverb

  1. archaic.
    upon what?
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of whereupon1

First recorded in 1300–50, whereupon is from the Middle English word wherupon. See where, upon
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He writes in that classic novel, "When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building."

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“The prosecutor claimed a search would have opened up ‘a storm of controversy,’ and added, ‘Can you imagine in Morgan Hill when they search an African-American —,” whereupon defense counsel objected.

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Whereupon, and predictably, congressional Republicans successfully pressured the academy to rescind the invitation.

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But he dropped back a second the following lap, whereupon Sainz came on the radio to make an unspecified complaint about Leclerc, using bad language.

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The court, she wrote, blessed a regime in which “state officers can ignore statutes they think are flawed and wait to be sued, whereupon they present the constitutionality of a statute as a defense.”

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