wherewith

From where +‎ with.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɛːˈwɪð/ (in accents with the "wine-whine" merger)
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʍɛɚˈwɪð/ (in accents without the "wine-whine" merger)
• (US, also) IPA^(key): /ʍɛɚˈwɪθ/ (in accents without the "wine-whine" merger)
• (US) IPA^(key): /wɛɚˈwɪð/ (in accents with the "wine-whine" merger)
• (US, also) IPA^(key): /wɛɚˈwɪθ/ (in accents with the "wine-whine" merger)

wherewith (not comparable)

1. (archaic) With which; with what.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981:

     Matthew 5:13:

     Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981:

     Zechariah 14:12:

     And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem.

   • 1885, Christina G[eorgina] Rossetti, “Love Came Down at Christmas [originally untitled]”, in Time Flies: A Reading Diary, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, OCLC 2226947:

     […] Worship we the Godhead, / Love Incarnate, Love Divine, / Worship we our Jesus, / But wherewith for sacred sign? // Love shall be our token, / Love be yours and love be mine, / Love to God and all men, / Love for plea and gift and sign.

wherewith (usually uncountable, plural wherewiths)

1. (archaic) Something with which; the means by which.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     Hath not he wherewith [transl. dequoy] to be beholding unto this his killing vivacitie?