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somewhither - What does it mean?

Definition of 'somewhither'

English

Adverb

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  • To some indeterminate place; to some place or other; to somewhere
  • *{{quote-book|year=1897|year_published=2005|author=(William Morris)
  • |chapter= Chapter IV. Of the Slaying of Friend and Foe |title= The Water of the Wondrous Isles|genre=Fantasy |publisher=Project Gutenberg|page=157 |passage=So came they, three hours after noon, to where was a clearing in the woodland, and a long narrow plain some furlong over lay before them,
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  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither , for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
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  • |title= Lost Valley, a Novel |publisher=Harper, Pennsylvania State University|page=437 |passage=The stirring of the wind was pleasantly ominous to Reilly: it was quickening, encouraging, hostile to inertia; it came somewhence and was going somewhither .}}

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