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13 words match “WHITHER”

WHITHER adv. 3 definitions
To what place; -- used interrogatively; as, whither goest thou "Whider may I flee" Chaucer. Sir Valentine, whither away so fast Shak.
WHITHERSOEVER adv.
To whatever place; to what place soever; wheresoever; as, I will go whithersoever you lead.
WHITHERWARD adv.
In what direction; toward what or which place. R. of Brunne. Whitherward to turn for a good course of life was by no means too apparent. Carlyle.
ANYWHITHER adv.
To or towards any place. [Archaic] De Foe.
ELSEWHITHER adv.
To some, or any, other place; as, you will have to go elsewhither for it. R. of Gloucester."For elsewhither was I bound." Carlyle.
NOWHITHER adv.
Not anywhither; in no direction; nowhere. [Archaic] "Thy servant went nowhither." 2 Kings v. 25.
SOMEWHITHER adv.
o some indeterminate place; to some place or other. Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither. Barrow.
BETAKE v.
o treaty and submission. Burke. The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them. Milton. Whither shall I betake me, where subsist Milton.
FLY v.
enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee. Fly, ere evil intercept thy flight. Milton. Whither shall I fly to escape their hands Shak.
FORERUNNER n.
; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even Jesus. Heb. vi. 20. My elder brothers, my forerunners, came. Dryden.
LADY n.
ss; the female head of a household. Agar, the handmaiden of Sara, whence comest thou, and whither goest thou The which answered, Fro the face of Sara my lady. Wyclif (Gen. xvi. 8.).
WHERE adv.
To what or which place; hence, to what goal, result, or issue; whither; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, where are you going But where does this tend Goldsmith. Lodged in sunny cleft, Where the gold breezes come not. Bryant.
WHIDER adv.
Whither. [Obs.] Chaucer.