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English
Etymology
Univerbation of any + whither.
Pronunciation
Adverb
anywhither (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 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.
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