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  • adverb formal From anywhere.

Etymologies

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any +‎ whence

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Examples

  • To-day, many a hundred year since Paulinus talked with Edwin, there are more people in Christendom who question whether man has a spirit to come anywhence or to go anywhither than, perhaps, in the world's history could ever before have been found at one time.

    Death—and After? Annie Wood Besant 1890

  • Nevertheless, what while she solaced herself with him, clipping and kissing him again and again and being of him clipped and kissed, she many a time eyed him in the face more than of her wont, misdoubting she knew not what, and whiles she looked about the garden, and she should see aught of black come anywhence.

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

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