Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In any direction; to any place.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Archaic To or towards any place.

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  • adverb rare To (in the direction of) anywhere.

Etymologies

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any +β€Ž whither

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Examples

  • The thrall hearkened, and cried out aloft, and fled away anywhither where he might hope for shelter, crying out that a hard portion was his because of their strife and wild doings, and an ill day for him whereon he must be dragged to death from his sweet life and his swine-keeping.

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • Verily, nothing can be done for the sake of evil even by the wicked themselves; for, as we abundantly proved, they seek good, but are drawn out of the way by perverse error; far less can this order which sets out from the supreme centre of good turn aside anywhither from the way in which it began.

    Consolation of Philosophy 2007

  • That the lines form a system; that, instead of running anywhither, they join certain points to certain others, making thus, not a simple network, but one whose meshes connect centres directly with one another,–is striking at first sight, and loses none of its peculiarity on second thought.

    Life on Mars? The real lesson from Lowell - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • We shoot with bows and hurl javelins and ride horses, but the works of women we never learnt; whereas your women do none of these things which we said, but stay in the waggons and work at the works of women, neither going out to the chase nor anywhither else.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • So in his mind, the trails tangled together and could lead anywhither.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • So in his mind, the trails tangled together and could lead anywhither.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • Other craft are keelless -- they are canoes; bobbing, unsteady, likely to capsize in sudden emergency; prone to drift into muddy waters; liable to be swept anywhither by any current.

    Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

  • Thus these spent people sat and talked for a long while, the talk veering anywhither just as chance directed.

    The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Rivers ran anywhither, just as the haphazard slope of earth's crevices directed; upon the map you saw quite clearly that their streams neither balanced one another nor watered the land with any pretense of equity.

    The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

  • What makes a man great and freed of soul, here or anywhither, is loyalty to the laws of right, of truth, of purity, of love, and the lofty will of

    The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913

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