anywhither
English
editEtymology
editUniverbation of any + whither.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editanywhither (not comparable)
- (rare) To (in the direction of) anywhere.
- Synonym: whithersoever
- Coordinate term: everywhither
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter III, ’’The One Institution’’”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):
- Clearly enough, if the Chiefs be not self-motive and what we call men, but mere patient lay-figures without self-motive principle, the Government will not move anywhither; it will tumble disastrously, and jumble, round its own axis, as for many years past we have seen it do.
Translations
editto anywhere — see whithersoever