Meaning & use
whence
From where; from which place, source, or cause, used in formal or archaic English.
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He returned to the village whence his grandparents had come decades earlier.
She could not explain whence her sudden confidence had come.
A note on using this word
Whence already means from where, so phrases like from whence are technically redundant, though common historically.
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