Crossword clues for wherewithal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wherewithal \Where`with*al"\, adv. & n.
Wherewith. ``Wherewithal shall we be clothed?''
--Matt. vi.
31.
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?
--Ps.
cxix. 9.
[The builders of Babel], still with vain design,
New Babels, had they wherewithal, would build.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. (context archaic English) In what way; how. n. The ability and means required to accomplish some task.
WordNet
n. the necessary means (especially financial means)
adv. out of, or by means of which; "tools wherewith to scrape the windshield of my car" [syn: wherewith]
Usage examples of "wherewithal".
Such crimes incur considerable fines and if you do not have the wherewithal to pay, you may well find yourself in one of the Virgin workcamps, manufacturing the rattly bits that are put in Ford Escort doors.
Now dubbed Uptown on the Hill, the compact urban neighborhood just northeast of downtown was an interesting multiethnic place with a range of residents who varied widely in financial wherewithal.
He did his best to get out of the dilemma, but seeing that I was pitiless he said he could not leave without paying a few small sums he owed the landlord, and without the wherewithal to obtain another lodging.
I did not like Passano, so I sent him to his family at Genoa, giving him the wherewithal to live till I came for him.
I had the wherewithal to live, but a brother-in-law of mine has possessed himself of all I have, and the unjust Tribunal winks at his misdeeds.
Both Crassus and Atticus were forced to flee their creditors, though Atticus managed to take his own personal fortune with him, and therefore had the wherewithal to live extremely comfortably while in exile.
If anybody looks as high as your garters, they will see how wretched you are, and the holes in the stockings will let people know that you have not the wherewithal to buy silk to mend them.
Instead of employing this diamond in attempting to bribe his jailers, who might only have taken it and then betrayed him to the governor, Dantes carefully preserved it, that in the event of his getting out of prison he might have wherewithal to live, for the sale of such a diamond would have quite sufficed to make his fortune.
If the Republic cares for either the rights of its miners or the lives of its patients, it has the wherewithal to end the strike this very minute.
It was a gateway, a link, transportation to this world for whoever had the brains, wherewithal and misfortune to deduce that inserting the four metal plates into four empty receptacles might produce interesting consequences.
Pinky Boyette, Gabe Lauderback, and John Peoples, having earlier boosted a box of thirty-six candy bars, a jug of pink chablis, and some chips from a corner convenience store, were lazing around the old, rotting bandstand in the park, washing down mouthfuls of gooey chocolate with swallows of wine and awaiting the onset of darkness, the time when they could begin to prowl the surrounding streets in search of prey, for the morning would come soon enough and with it would come the need for money to buy the wherewithal to feed their habits.
The motives behind building the new church were twofold: to resurrect the ancient splendor of Byzantium and to show the world the financial wherewithal of the prospering Greek American community.
I might bear this if I had the wherewithal to live, but a brother-in-law of mine has possessed himself of all I have, and the unjust Tribunal winks at his misdeeds.
The two hands wash each other-Russia providing capital and consumer goods, and the United States the wherewithal to eat.
Some were freshmen who lived too far from home and didn't have the wherewithal even for bus fare.