whithersoever
Adverb

whithersoever (not comparable)

  1. (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 ↗:
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      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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