Meanings
- archaicnot comparableTo what place soever; wherever.
Whithersoever you choose; but by what means of conveyance[?]
1859, George Augustus Sala, “Seven o’Clock a.m.—A Parliamentary Train”, in Twice Round the Clock; or The Hours of the Day and Night in London. […], London: Houlston and Wright, […], →OCLC, page 585 more examples
And a certaine Scribe came, and ſaid vnto him, Maſter, I will follow thee whitherſoeuer thou goeſt.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 8:19, column 1JONES was commanded to leave the Houſe immediately, and told, that his Clothes and every thing elſe ſhould be ſent to him whitherſoever he ſhould order them.
1749, Henry Fielding, “XII. Containing Love Letters, &c.”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VI, page 305[…] whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.
1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 270[T]he flaming pillar slowly twisted and thundered off whithersoever it passes to in the bowels of the great earth, leaving Ayesha standing where it had been.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLCWhithersoever she had fared, she had seen nothing but youths fatuously prostrate to her—not one upright figure which she could respect. There were the middle-aged men, the old men, who did not bow down to her; but from middle-age, as from eld, she had a sanguine aversion.
1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika DobsonSynonyms: anywhither
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbTo what place soever; wherever.
Origin
- Middle Englishwhidersoevere
- Englishwhithersoever
Inherited from Middle English whidersoevere. By surface analysis, whither + so + -ever.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian където и да е
- където и да е (kădeto i da e)to what place soever
German wohin auch immer
- wohin auch immerto what place soever
Latin quōvīs, quōquō
- quōvīsto what place soever
- quōquōto what place soever
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with whithersoever
Cite this entry
whithersoever. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whithersoever
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