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Etymology
From Middle English nowhider, from Old English nāhwider. Analyzable as no + whither.
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nowhither (not comparable)
- (archaic) nowhere; to no place.
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. I, Phenomena”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):This stuffed rump of mine saves not me only from rheumatism, but you also from what other isms! In this your Life-pilgrimage Nowhither, a fine Squallacci marching-music, and Gregorian Chant, accompanies you, and the hollow Night of Orcus is well hid!
1869, George MacDonald, The Seaboard Parish:They come nowhence, and they go nowhither. But now I see them and all things as ever moving symbols of the motions of man's spirit and destiny.
1913, Clara Elizabeth Laughlin, The work-a-day girl: a study of some present day conditions:Other paths had looked as promising and had led nowhither. Nevertheless, she tried this one.
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