whithersoever
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Adverb
whithersoever (not comparable)
- To what place soever; wherever.
- 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 |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:
- 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.
- 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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Synonyms
- (to what place soever): anywhither
Translations
to what place soever
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