whithersoever
Adverb
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Adverb
whithersoever (not comparable)
- (archaic) To what place soever; wherever.
- Synonyms: anywhither
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗:, Matthew 8:19
- And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (
please specify ), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗: - |||tr=|brackets=|subst=|lit=|nocat=1|footer=}}|}}
- Jones was commanded to leave the house immediately, and told, that his clothes and everything else should be sent to him whithersoever he should order them.
- 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, OCLC 1000326417 ↗, page 270 ↗:
- {...}} whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.
- 1926, H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, 8, No.3, 373-80.
- But again I thought of the emptiness and horror of reality, and boldly prepared to follow whithersoever I might be led.
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