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

Encyclopedia: Whence