whenas

adv

1. (archaic, not-comparable)When; at the time (which).

   “Tho, when-as all things ready were aright, / The Damzel was before the Altar ſet, / Being already dead with fearful fright.”

   “And indeed it is a greater blessing from God, more worthy so excellent a creature as man is, and a higher end to honour and sanctifie the league of marriage, whenas the solace and satisfaction of the minde is regarded and provided for before the sensitive pleasing of the body.”

   “Omens thicken upon us […] Next, the stumbling of the King whenas he went upon the poop of the long ship which bare us on this voyage to these islands.”

conj

1. (archaic)When.
2. (archaic)Whereas.

   “Only this I marvelled, and other men have since, whenas I, in a ſubject ſo new to this age, and ſo hazardous to pleaſe, concealed not my name, why this author, defending that part which is ſo creeded by the people, would conceal his.”