different between whithersoever vs elsewhither

English

Etymology

whither +? soever

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?v?(?)

Adverb

whithersoever (not comparable)

1. (archaic) To what place soever; wherever.

   Synonym: anywhither

   • 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.

Translations

English

Etymology

else + whither (“to which place, to what place”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?ls?hw?th?, IPA^(key): /??ls??ð?/

Adverb

elsewhither (not comparable)

1. (formal) To some other place; in some other direction.

   Synonym: otherwhither; more at somewhere else

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 4, chapter VIII, The Didactic

     […] know that ‘impossible,’ where Truth and Mercy and the everlasting Voice of Nature order, has no place in the brave man’s dictionary. That when all men have said “Impossible,” and tumbled noisily elsewhither, and thou alone art left, then first thy time and possibility have come.

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 43

     With Strickland the sexual appetite took a very small place. It was unimportant. It was irksome. His soul aimed elsewhither.

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