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whom [hu:m]

pron. 谁

Who \Who\, pron. [Possess. {whose}; object. {Whom}.] [OE. who,
wha, AS. hw[=a], interrogative pron., neut. hw[ae]t; akin to
OFries. hwa, neut. hwet, OS. hw[=e], neut. hwat, D. wie,
neut. wat, G. wer, neut. was, OHG. wer, hwer, neut. waz,
hwaz, Icel. hvat, neut., Dan. hvo, neut. hvad, Sw. ho, hvem,
neut. hvad, Goth. hwas, fem. hw[=o], neut. hwa, Lith. kas,
Ir. & Gael. co, W. pwy, L. quod, neuter of qui, Gr. po`teros
whether, Skr. kas. [root]182. Cf. {How}, {Quantity},
{Quorum}, {Quote}, {Ubiquity}, {What}, {When}, {Where},
{Whether}, {Which}, {Whither}, {Whom}, {Why}.]
1. Originally, an interrogative pronoun, later, a relative
pronoun also; -- used always substantively, and either as
singular or plural. See the Note under {What}, pron., 1.
As interrogative pronouns, who and whom ask the question:
What or which person or persons? Who and whom, as relative
pronouns (in the sense of that), are properly used of
persons (corresponding to which, as applied to things),
but are sometimes, less properly and now rarely, used of
animals, plants, etc. Who and whom, as compound relatives,
are also used especially of persons, meaning the person
that; the persons that; the one that; whosoever. ``Let who
will be President.'' --Macaulay.

[He] should not tell whose children they were.
--Chaucer.

There thou tell'st of kings, and who aspire;
Who fall, who rise, who triumph, who do moan.
--Daniel.

Adders who with cloven tongues
Do hiss into madness. --Shak.

Whom I could pity thus forlorn. --Milton.

How hard is our fate, who serve in the state.
--Addison.

Who cheapens life, abates the fear of death.
--Young.

The brace of large greyhounds, who were the
companions of his sports. --Sir W.
Scott.

2. One; any; one. [Obs., except in the archaic phrase, as who
should say.]

As who should say, it were a very dangerous matter
if a man in any point should be found wiser than his
forefathers were. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).

Whom \Whom\, pron. [OE. wham, AS. dative hw[=a]m, hw?m. See
{Who}.]
The objective case of who. See {Who}.

Note: In Old English, whom was also commonly used as a
dative. Cf. {Him}.

And every grass that groweth upon root
She shall eke know, and whom it will do boot.
--Chaucer.

He appeals to readers who like their Tchaikovsky in the grand tradition, untainted by deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, or those analysts for whom historical context is irrelevant and the works' autonomous greatness a fiction.
"Baseball is a kind of theater: they have a lot in common." Mr. Nederlander is one of five brothers and a sister, most of whom are closely involved with the family business, run primarily from New York and Detroit.
And while selling Philipp Brothers has been talked about, the big unanswered question is to whom.
It affects an estimated 10 million American men, for many of whom it is a painful secret.
But Concorde still attracts its regular fliers, of whom some travel every week, and those individuals who are willing to pay the supersonic premium to arrive fresh. In addition, Concorde continues to attract a busy charter business.
"I am ready to sit in an international conference with Israelis, no matter whom they send," Arafat says in an interview in the Nov. 7 issue of Time magazine.
Q. Mr. President, whom precisely are you criticizing when you say that the riots are not homegrown and not spontaneous? A. Well, we have had _ it's a little difficult for me, because I _ there's some things that I shouldn't be saying.
They're afraid that the FDA's bureaucrats, many of whom are fighting the proposal, will drag their feet in giving formal approval for drugs being distributed to patients under the new rules.
He said one soldier whom he would not identify had a leg amputated.
Spare a thought, however, for the new recruits to the real business of life, those for whom 1994 may be the start of a lifetime of gardening until arthritis stops them in the 2030s.
"I don't want to know who is sleeping with whom or who is getting a divorce.
"His people would expect it (his return) and he is just the sort of person who would do it," Mrs. Thatcher said of Gorbachev, with whom she has a good rapport.
One of these sources, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity, said at least 11 ships were heading home without new orders to pick up Mideast-bound cargo.
Mrs. Scott said her husband played a key role in the 1986 resettlement of a group of more than 200 of the Montagnard people from Vietnam, most of whom settled in Greensboro, N.C.
Wasserstein and Perella, and Charles Ward, with whom he will head the mergers-and-acquisitions advisory group, are "people I trust and respect and like."
The bride, her head draped with a Spanish-style mantilla, has eyes only for her lover, whom she has abandoned to marry an older, richer man pictured in a top hat.
That is a worry that Sen. Wirth says he first began hearing a year ago during a meeting with Soviet scientists in Boston, several of whom have worked in the Soviet nuclear weapons program.
"Bill had been tracking the same statistics independently since 1986 and was the only one of the 350 people to whom I sent the report who paid attention to it or agreed with it," Mr. Zuccarelli says.
He talks too about being married for 42 years, and his five children, all of whom, he says, "came home every night" while they were growing up.
Navy admirals, many of whom expressed misgivings about the ATF in the past, must renegotiate the service's role in the overall program by the end of this year.
He met a Vietnamese woman in 1969 to whom he is still married in the United States; he fathered Gloria during a brief liaison.
Michael H., a neighbor with whom Carol D. had an affair, sued in state court in 1982, seeking to have himself declared Victoria's father.
Auchinleck, whom he liked and admired.
He enlisted backing from the Lapham brothers of New York, who controlled the nation's Leather Trust, and from several other capitalists, most of whom were from the North.
Late last year, after a grueling search that began with 120 names, Lockheed appointed to its board four new outside directors, all of whom received the blessing of the top 11 institutional holders.
Horner had said he was impressed by the toughness of the Soviet players, most of whom are good athletes who play basketball, volleyball, or compete in track.
Another difficult problem is changing the psychology of workers, many of whom seem disinterested in increasing production or streamlining the operation.
In the past few days, Moscow has hosted the Egyptian foreign minister and a special envoy of Saudi Arabia, with whom the Soviets don't have diplomatic relations.
In determining who will set the moral climate we must find leaders in public and private life whom we can look to for guidance and example and overcome the urge to perpetuate the status quo.
The woman with whom she allegedly had sex _ Lance Cpl.

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