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English
Etymology
From some + whence.
Adverb
somewhence (not comparable)
- (archaic or literary) from somewhere
1897, William Morris, “Chapter IV. Of the Slaying of Friend and Foe”, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), Project Gutenberg, published 2005, page 157:... so that the said plain looked even as a wide green highway leading ... somewhence to somewhither.
1910, “Volume 50”, in Good Housekeeping Magazine, Indiana University, published 2008, page 157:For all beautiful things, no matter how fanciful, are somehow, somewhen, somewhence, true; and all true things, no matter how repellent, are somehow, somewhen, somewhence, beautiful.
1922, Katherine (Fullerton) Gerould, Lost Valley, a Novel, Harper, Pennsylvania State University, published 2010, page 437:The stirring of the wind was pleasantly ominous to Reilly: it was quickening, encouraging, hostile to inertia; it came somewhence and was going somewhither.
Usage notes
Similar to whence in that from is not needed and would be redundant. However, it is found in usage.
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