whithersoever
Americanconjunction
adverb
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
May I and mine become as this little child, which now follows the child Jesus, that lamb of God, in a white robe, whithersoever he goes!
From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous
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 Armando Palacio Vald?s
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