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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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WHANCE, adv. Sc. form of Eng. whence (Wgt. 1877 G. Fraser Sketches 209; s.Sc. 1857 H. S. Riddell Psalms cxxi. 1). Rare and obs.
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