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whithersoever

whithersoever adverb: to what place soever; wherever.

Adverb

whithersoever (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) To what place soever; wherever.
    • And a certaine Scribe came, and ſaid vnto him, Maſter, I will follow thee whitherſoeuer thou goeſt.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 8:19, column 1
    • JONES was commanded to leave the Houſe immediately, and told, that his Clothes and every thing elſe ſhould be ſent to him whitherſoever he ſhould order them.1749, Henry Fielding, “XII. Containing Love Letters, &c.”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VI, page 305
    Synonyms:
    anywhither

whithersoever meaning in Urdu

whithersoever in Urdu

کہیں بھی

Examples of whithersoever in a sentence

  • Whithersoever you choose; but by what means of conveyance[?]1859, George Augustus Sala, “Seven o’Clock a.m.—A Parliamentary Train”, in Twice Round the Clock; or The Hours of the Day and Night in...
  • […] whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American...
  • [T]he flaming pillar slowly twisted and thundered off whithersoever it passes to in the bowels of the great earth, leaving Ayesha standing where it had been.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  • Whithersoever she had fared, she had seen nothing but youths fatuously prostrate to her—not one upright figure which she could respect.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson:

Synonyms of whithersoever

Origin of whithersoever

Inherited from Middle English whidersoevere. By surface analysis, whither + so + -ever.

Words that rhyme with whithersoever

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Questions about whithersoever

What does whithersoever mean?
Whithersoever means to what place soever; wherever.
What is whithersoever in Urdu?
Whithersoever in Urdu is کہیں بھی. See Whithersoever meaning in Urdu.
How do you use whithersoever in a sentence?
Whithersoever you choose; but by what means of conveyance[?]
What part of speech is whithersoever?
Whithersoever is an adverb.

Words near whithersoever in the dictionary

  1. whitherever
  2. whithering
  3. Whitherne
  4. whithers
  5. whitherso
  6. whithersoever
  7. whitherto
  8. whithertofore
  9. whitherward
  10. whitherwards
  11. Whithorn

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