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English
Etymology
From other + whence.
Adverb
otherwhence (not comparable)
- (formal, now rare) By other means; From otherwhere.
1868, Augusta Webster, transl., The Medea of Euripides, pages 37–38, lines 571–574:'Twere a goodly boon
If men could raise their children otherwhence
And there should be no woman tribe at all;
So would there be no mischief in the world.