whithersoever

American

[hwith-er-soh-ev-er, with-] / ˌʰwɪð ər soʊˈɛv ər, ˌwɪð- /

conjunction

Archaic.

to whatsoever place.

whithersoever British

/ ˌwɪðəsəʊˈɛvə /

adverb

archaic to whichever place

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Etymology

Origin of whithersoever

First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English, equivalent to whitherso “whithersoever” ( Old English swā hwider swā ) + ever ever

Example Sentences

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And the wild winds of fortune will carry me onward, Oh whithersoever they blow ...

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2012

Americans, he believed, should go wherever they wanted to go, although he said so in a potentially tongue-tying sentence: "Let us go on whithersoever our destiny may lead us."

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2011

Well, God’s will be done—whatever it may be, and whithersoever it may lead!

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

In the spirit of Plato’s Laws, he followed the argument whithersoever it led.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward

Some relations took him and his sister away to their own home; in the state of stupor in which he was, there was no difficulty in getting him to go whithersoever they would.

From Froth by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

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