anywhence
English
Etymology
any + whence
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĕʹ.nĭ.hwĕns, IPA(key): /ˈɛn.ɪ.ʍɛns/
Adverb
anywhence (not comparable)
- (formal, now rare) From anywhere.
- 1671: Thomas Brancker, in Stephen Peter Rigaud’s Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century, volume 1, page 167 (1841 publication)
- As soon as I receive it anywhence, you shall have it presently returned.
- 1671: Thomas Brancker, in Stephen Peter Rigaud’s Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century, volume 1, page 167 (1841 publication)
Related terms
→
- (related through any):
- anybody
- anyhow →
- anyhoo
- any-kyns
- any-lengthian
- any more
- anyon
- anyplace
- anything →
- anythingarian →
- anythingarianism
- anythingarian →
- anyways →
- anyway
- anywhat
- anywhen
- anywhere
- anywhither
- anywise
- (related through whence):
- elsewhence
- everywhence
- nowhence
- otherwhence
- somewhence
- whenceforth
- whenceforward
- whenceness
- whencesoever
- whencever
- whenceward
References
- “†ˈanywhence, adv.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]