What does whithersoever mean?
Whithersoever means (archaic) To what place soever; wherever..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
(archaic) To what place soever; wherever..
1926, H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, 8, No.3, 373-80. But again I thought of the emptiness and horror of reality, and boldly prepared to follow whithersoever I might be led.
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.
Use whithersoever when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Whithersoever means (archaic) To what place soever; wherever..
Common synonyms include anywhither.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1926, H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, 8, No.3, 373-80. But again I thought of the emptiness and horror of reality, and boldly prepared to follow whithersoever I might be led.
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