anywhenceadv.
/ˈɛnɪwɛns/, U.S. /ˈɛniˌ(h)wɛns/ rare after 17th cent.
From any place.
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the world > space > direction > [adverb] > away from some thing or place > from any place
whenne1390
whethenc1400
whencesoever1511
anywhence1531
whencever1718
1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon sig. E If thou wilt receaue any anoyntinge of grace or mercie any whence, saue of hym, he is no lenger Christ vnto the.
1614 T. Overbury et al. Wife now Widdow sig. F4 (title) Newes, from any whence: or Old Truthes under a supposall of Noueltie.
1675 W. Jackson Of Rule of Faith 21 Mysteries..as cannot be communicated any whence, but from that infinite and eternall Wisdom.
1791 H. Walpole Lett. (1891) IX. 332 Mr. Berry..will be impatient for news from Birmingham: but there are no more, nor any-whence else.
1864 Spectator 10 Sept. 1032/1 It is not easy to believe that the dancing little bubbles of this ebbing and flowing hot spring [sc. the eternal Fountain of Life] can come..anywhence indeed but from the shallow and muddy fountain of a sort of religious spa.
1921 M. F. Meyer Psychol. of Other-one xv. 349 The nervous system as a whole..is capable of conducting, anywhere and anywhence within it, a particular succession of stronger and weaker stream waves.
2001 J. Bennett Learning from Six Philosophers II. xxxv. 259 What is the case at one time cannot entail anything about what happened earlier. That yields the Start Anywhere Thesis and its cousin the Come Anywhence Thesis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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