Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

whithersoever

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English

Syllables: whith-er-so-ev-er
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

To what place soever; wherever.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"And a certaine Scribe came, and ſaid vnto him, Maſter, I will follow thee whitherſoeuer thou goeſt."
"JONES 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."
"Whithersoever you choose; but by what means of conveyance[?]"
"[…] whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot."
"[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."
"Whithersoever 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."

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English whidersoevere. By surface analysis, whither + so + -ever.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: whidersoevere

Usage

Archaic

Synonyms

anywhither

Rhymes With

never ever now or never however whatever forever whenever whoever wherever clever whatsoever trevor

Questions

What does whithersoever mean?: To what place soever; wherever.
Where does whithersoever come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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