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Adverb: whence  wen(t)s
  1. From what place, source, or cause
     
  2. [formal] From what place or origin or source;"whence did he come?"
    "sketches the lawless society whence the ballads sprang"; "whence comes this splendid feast?";
    - wherefrom [archaic]

Encyclopedia: Whence