FromMiddle Englishnowhider, fromOld Englishnāhwider. Analyzable asno +whither.
nowhither (notcomparable)
- (archaic)nowhere; to no place.
1843 April,Thomas Carlyle, “ch. I, Phenomena”, inPast and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.:Charles C[offin] Little andJames Brown, published1843,→OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):This stuffed rump of mine saves not me only from rheumatism, but you also from what otherisms! In this your Life-pilgrimageNowhither, a fine Squallacci marching-music, and Gregorian Chant, accompanies you, and the hollow Night of Orcus is well hid!
1869,George MacDonald,The Seaboard Parish:They come nowhence, and they gonowhither. But now I see them and all things as ever moving symbols of the motions of man's spirit and destiny.
1913, Clara Elizabeth Laughlin,The work-a-day girl: a study of some present day conditions:Other paths had looked as promising and had lednowhither. Nevertheless, she tried this one.
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