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whitherward, adv. (n.) arch.|ˈhwɪðəwəd|
[f. whither adv. + -ward.]
1. interrog. Towards or to what place? in what direction? whither? † Also with reference to situation (nearly = whereabouts?). Also fig. or gen. Towards what?
c1200Ormin 17295 Þu ne mahht nohht..sen..Fra wheþennwarrd..he comm..ne whiderrwarrd he wendeþþ. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 161 Ðan þe safarinde men seð þe sa sterre, hie wuten sone wuderward hie sullen weie holden. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 307 Heo wende fram al hire kun,..& nuste an erþe ȝwderward, bote as þe wind blew. a1300Cursor M. 1246 ‘Þou most now ga To paradis...’ ‘Yai, sir, wist i wyderward Þat tat vncuth contre ware.’ 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 5916 Ȝeueþ gode tent, Whederward þat Pers ys went. c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 782 He..asked of hire whiderward she wente. c1425Wyntoun Cron. vi. xviii. 2008 For til wit..qweþirwart Þe thayne of Fiff þat tyme past. 1470–85Malory Arthur vii. xiii. 232 Whether ward ar ye way ledyng this knyghte? 1540Palsgr. Acolastus v. v. Aa iv b, Whytherwarde take I my iourneye? or whyther warde am I goynge? 1614W. Browne Sheph. Pipe i. 510 Forth of auenture his way is went, But whither⁓ward he draw, he conceitlesse Was. 1801Southey Thalaba v. xiii, Unknowing whitherward to bend his way. 1851Carlyle Sterling i. xi, Whitherward to turn for a good course of life, was by no means too apparent. 1860Trollope Framley P. xlii, As one goes on pleasantly running down the path—whitherward?
2. rel.
a. as compound relative: Towards the place that; usually in generalized or indefinite sense: Towards any place that, whithersoever.
c1205Lay. 9994 Whudereward þa ferde heore flæm makeden, þe eorles heom siȝen to. a1225Ancr. R. 168 Uorte..uoluwen þe hwuderward so þu euer wendest. a1300Cursor M. 21228 O sant mathu þe gospel-bok Quider-ward sumeuer he scok..wit him he bar. c1350Will. Palerne 2830 Whiderward as þei went al wast þei it founde. c1375Cursor M. 23523 (Fairf.) Quidder-wart [Trin. Whiderward so] an wil loke þai loke al. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. cxxix. (1495) nn ij b/1 A way by the whyche a man maye goo whytherwarde that he woll. 1845Carlyle Cromwell I. 294 Shall he..conduct the King whitherward his Majesty wishes?
b. as simple relative: Towards which.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. iii. (Bodl. MS.), Þe wel springe and þe finalle ende whederward hit [sc. the river] renneþ. 1582Allen Martyrdom Campion (1908) 7 Whitherwarde by longe and great travail he came, going about by Rome..and by Remes. 1597Beard Theatre God's Judgem. xix. (1612) 353 Bombadilla..was called home againe into Spaine: whitherward..as hee imbarked himselfe..there arose..a horrible..tempest. 1895Sat. Rev. 21 Sept. 374/1 Four guns are sent..to advanced posts up the nullah, whitherward they make their way by forest routes.
3. n. (nonce-use). Place towards which one goes.
1877Blackie Wise Men 325 Athens hath no clew To track his whitherward.
So ˈwhitherwards adv.
13..K. Alis. 955 (Laud MS.), Who so wolde, he miȝth ryde..Whiderwardes so he wolde. c1320Sir Beues (A.) 2037 At þe kniȝt he askede þo ‘Whider-wardes is Mombraunt?’ 1909–10Sir W. Butler Autobiog. xii. (1911) 186 Signs..indicating the whitherwards of coming events. |